We are going to give your IBM block storage a checkup! All you really need to monitor the health of your storage is a card that shows the life signs and vital statistics for each block storage system such as: Diagnostic events that tell you whether the storage system has got a clean bill of health Key capacity data that tells you whether you’ve got the capacity to meet your storage demands Key performance data that tells you whether your storage system passes its fitness test     So, we pinned the card for each block... [More]

Getting support, detecting potential and existing problems, and viewing basic information about your inventory of block storage systems has never been easier. In this update of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights , you can monitor the basic health, capacity, and performance of IBM block storage systems from a single pane of glass . And if a problem is detected, you can get help to investigate and trouble shoot the problem, and minimize the impact of hardware and software issues before they affect the performance of your critical business... [More]

Complexity abounds in the world of #data protection, backup and recovery. Organizations struggle with complex procedures that take forever to setup and implement. System maintenance is always an ongoing challenge. The synchronized coordination between those that are responsible for storage allocation, the storage administrators and application owners and the backup and #VM administrators can be a responsibility nightmare. Administrators need to complete their tasks faster and efficiently whether their data is hosted in a physical, virtual,... [More]

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Managing #data growth is still – and will probably always be -- a major focus for organizations. Effective storage management is exceedingly important in the day-to- day operations and when different #ITinfrastructure issues come up during the course of the year.   Are you spending too much on storage, and getting too little in return?   Are you still using spreadsheets to track storage assets and utilization?   Are you wondering if you are making appropriate use of your storage?    Do you know how close you are... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control™   now automatically generates agentless servers for the physical servers and virtual machines in your SAN environment, so that you can easily see how they are consuming storage. IBM Spectrum Control creates agentless servers by using information about the following resources: Host connections on storage systems Host bus adapters (HBAs) on fabrics Discovered virtual machines Read about the benefits of automatic creation of agentless servers in this blog: A great time-to-value feature: IBM Spectrum Control... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control™ , a member of the IBM Spectrum Control Suite , offers a lot of value for customers who want to monitor IBM Spectrum Scale™ clusters. In addition to monitoring all your clusters, IBM Spectrum Control helps you to understand how the clusters are related to each other, to the block storage systems in your environment, and to the external cloud tiers.   In this video, you learn how to use IBM Spectrum Control to monitor the use of... [More]

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Watch this video to see how you can quickly set the location for your storage systems and then use the Cognos® Business Intelligence tool to create a report which shows the storage capacity by location. Let's cut to the chase As a storage administrator, you want to configure the properties of your storage resources so that you can filter or sort the resources in the GUI or in an external application if you export the data. Previously, you modified the properties of each resource individually. Now in IBM Spectrum Control™... [More]

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    Everyone is alking about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus , the next wave in IBM’s #data protection and recovery portfolio. It's modern technology is easy to use, fast and low cost. Unlike a lot of products, you don’t have to be a backup expert to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The software is simple to deploy and can be ready to go in as little as 15 minutes by installing a pre-built virtual machine.       " IBM has been a leader in data protection for many years, so it should come as... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control , a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to add value to your #storage environment through the implementation of enhanced and new features that not only save you time and money but provide important #analytic #data for reports and problem determination.   In previous versions, you had to create agentless servers manually, either individually or in bulk (from a file), but now they are created automatically at the end of probe post-processing. This enhancement means less... [More]

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With IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1, you can now choose cloud object storage in the public cloud as the location to store and protect your data. IBM Spectrum Protect previously provided on-premises cloud object storage as a back-end storage option. But now with IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1, public cloud object storage has been added as an additional safe, secure location option, providing regional, tiered storage for your data. The cross-region level of protection is a great option if you need the additional security levels to ensure that your data is... [More]

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As storage solutions evolve, customers are faced with a bewildering range of possibilities, which continually evolve, including cloud, disk, and tape storage. It's intriguing that so many IBM Spectrum Protect customers continue to rely on a traditional storage medium: tape. Estimates suggest that 50% to 90% of IBM Spectrum Protect customers use tape for at least some of their storage protection requirements. Why? Although hybrid cloud solutions are gaining popularity, tape still offers significant advantages: Protection against... [More]

Don't waste another minute. Instead, follow the example of customers around the world who have used the IBM Spectrum Protect ™ cookbooks to streamline configuration of their storage environments.   The latest edition in the cookbook series just appeared on the scene, the new IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprint and Server Automated Configuration for Linux on Power Systems (Little Endian), Version 3, Release 1 . This new guide rounds out the series of V3.1 Blueprint books , which also includes Blueprints for the IBM AIX®,... [More]

In the latest release of IBM Spectrum Control, V5.2.14, there is improved granularity in IBM SAN Volume Controllers (SVC) support, including both Stretched Clusters (SVC only) and HyperSwap (SVC, IBM Storwize and V9000).   The following scenario gives an insight on how the new functionality works.   Bob the System Administrator is auditing his storage requirements in preparation for next year’s budget. He wants to know what systems are configured as Stretched Clusters or HyperSwap and where they are physically located. He opens... [More]

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There's a problem with one of the critical applications in your storage environment. It's your job to investigate. In IBM Spectrum Control™ , you check the performance of the volumes in the application. All looks fine. You look at the pool that contains those volumes. The response time is higher than you expect. Now you want to know what was it like at the same time last week. IBM Spectrum Control makes it easy for you to compare performance metrics across different time ranges. Here's how: Open a performance view... [More]

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