Viewing information about resources
Use
IBM® Storage Insights to view a quick snapshot of
key statistics about your resources. You can use the Resources menu to see
detailed inventory information about your block, file, object, and unified
storage systems and to add storage systems for monitoring. You can
also see inventory information about your switches, fabrics, and hosts and add them for monitoring.
Creating customized dashboards to monitor your storage
You can create dashboards to selectively monitor particular storage systems in your environment. For example, you might want a dashboard for each of your data centers that monitors all of the storage systems in the data center and another dashboard for your production systems.
Viewing capacity information
You can monitor the capacity of your storage resources by viewing key metrics. For example, you can view the used capacity and available capacity of your monitored storage systems.
Viewing performance of storage systems
You can monitor the performance of your storage resources by viewing key metrics. For example, you can see charts for the response time, I/O rate, and data rate of your monitored storage systems.
Viewing performance of fabrics
You can monitor the performance of your fabrics by viewing key metrics. Use the port congestion and saturation analysis to assess performance.
Viewing performance of hosts
You can monitor the performance of your ESXi hosts by viewing key metrics.
Viewing performance of datastores
You can monitor the performance of your datastores by viewing key performance metrics.