IBM® Spectrum Control™ , V5.2.13 contains more than a few enhancements, but Dell EMC #storage (VNX, VNXe and VMAX) support that enables storage #analytics for Dell EMC customers is a big part of this new release.   The EMC support in both IBM Spectrum Control and the Storage Insights #cloud offering provides better insight, flexibility and efficiency for customers with heterogeneous storage environments.   If you are a storage administrator, you might have to analyze tiering of your storage capacity to see... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control™ offers a single pane of glass to monitor the performance of all your IBM Spectrum Scale™ clusters. ‬ ‬In this video, you learn how to use IBM Spectrum Control to compare the performance of multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters and then analyze the clusters that have the heaviest I/O loads or the longest response times.‪‬ Learn how to use the following techniques to identify performance issues and bottlenecks in your storage:‬ Analyze the performance of all your clusters over a period to... [More]

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In this video, you can learn about the performance troubleshooting techniques that you can use in IBM Spectrum Control™ . Watch Bob, the storage administrator, as he investigates a problem raised with a critical medical database application within his organization. Watch Bob use the following techniques to investigate the problem in IBM Spectrum Control: Troubleshoot performance from the point of view of an application. Change which metrics are displayed in the performance charts. View the relationships between resources very easily.... [More]

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Television, movies, and comic books have featured the dynamic duo of Batman and Robin, who battle crime and keep the world safe. Batman is typically portrayed as tall and strong, while Robin is short and snappy. A perfect duo! They complement each other to get the job done. In the world of data protection, there is another dynamic duo: IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Spectrum Scale. To learn how these two products complement each other, read the recently updated white paper: Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect... [More]

              As a storage administrator, you want to improve your business agility and at the same time reduce your storage costs and meet service levels. You have workloads that vary throughout the workday, by the day of the week, and you want to have more control over the performance optimization data you get back .                                     ( maxfavilli.com)     Previously performance data... [More]

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Here's the scenario: You bought an IBM® FlashSystem™ A9000. You added it to IBM Spectrum Control™ for monitoring. Now you want to see the beef: what sort of data reduction savings am I getting? FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R can reduce the size of your data significantly using technologies such as compression and data deduplication. You want to see exactly what sort of savings you are getting, and how that compares to savings on other storage systems. To see the data reduction savings for your FlashSystem... [More]

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V5.2.12 of IBM Spectrum Control is jam packed with new features, including new reports, enhanced hybrid cloud monitoring, and more device support. What do these features do? How can they help you monitor and manage your storage? There is a lot to take in with this release, and the IBM Knowledge Center is here to help. In the continuing blog series of "pearls in the Spectrum Control documentation", I'll highlight some of the new information that we've added for 5.2.12, and some existing topics that you might not be aware... [More]

You add storage systems to get valuable insights, and to get those valuable insights, you rely on the data collector, which collects the asset, capacity, and performance data securely from your data center for analysis and presentation in IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ Storage Insights . But, what if your storage systems are in different networks or data centers and you have only one data collector? This might result in bandwidth or connectivity issues. Well, all you need to do is install multiple data collectors, and when you add a storage... [More]

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If you remember the tale, Goldilocks took only a few mouthfuls of Papa Bear's and Mama Bear's porridge, but she licked Baby Bear's bowl clean. If the Bear family were running a restaurant, how much would they charge Goldilocks? Would they charge her for the porridge that she ate or would they charge her for the three bowls of porridge? In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.12, when you create chargeback and consumer reports, you can charge for the block storage that is allocated to the storage consumer or the block storage that... [More]

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In your chargeback and consumer reports, you want to make sure that you charge the same price for the same type of storage whether it is block storage, copy data, or file storage. And, if your block storage is tiered, you want to charge the same price for each tier to all of your storage consumers. And when the storage costs change, you don't want to have to update each report. In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.12, you can use the default costs for storage for each report that you create or you can use custom costs. When you change... [More]

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In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.11, you got the chargeback report that shows the capacity and cost of the capacity for all the applications, departments, hypervisors, and physical servers in your storage environment. Well, in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.12, you get the storage consumption report so that you can configure a report that shows the block capacity and cost of the block capacity for a single storage consumer. Each consumer gets to star in their own report. So, if you don't want the owner of a storage consumer, such as an... [More]

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IBM® Spectrum Control™ V5.2.12, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to provide IT managers with more and more intelligent analytics for managing their storage environments by balancing efficiency with performance and cost savings. Some highlights of the new release that is available include: Enhancements to the reporting on multiple tenants within the IBM Spectrum Control GUI. In addition to the previously available Chargeback report, you can now create a new storage Consumer report outside of the optional... [More]

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You can use the IBM Spectrum Control™ GUI to monitor the performance and capacity of your storage resources. You can also report on the condition, capacity, and performance resources in the Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tool. The Cognos BI tool is an optional component that you can install with IBM Spectrum Control . IBM Spectrum Control is a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite . Use Cognos BI to view predefined reports and create custom reports about your storage resources. To access... [More]

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                    Yes!   Recently the automated probe option was added to IBM Spectrum Control to enable the creation of a probe and collect status and asset information more efficiently about your storage resources for monitoring.   This scheduling option puts you in more control of your resource monitoring by simplifying the process of managing your probes and helps to avoid excessive load on the IBM Spectrum Control server. To minimize the number of concurrent probe jobs, you can... [More]