Individual device dashboard

Individual device dashboard enables you to monitor and troubleshoot the specific storage systems usage in the cluster. It provides system level information about different aspects, such as Components, Capacity, Sustainability, Workload Protection, System Protection, Performance, Top Volumes by Latency, Top Volumes in Throughput, and Top Volumes in IOPS.

On the Carbon dashboard view, when all the block storage systems are loaded in the left panel, you can select any device and go to the device overview page. For more information about Carbon dashboard, see Overview dashboard (Carbon).

You can access the storage system details page by clicking the hyperlinked name of a storage system.

Along with the name of the storage system, some device details are also displayed, such as IP address, Firmware, Serial number (Storage system), Node Serial number, and Enclosure serial number.

When you hover on Firmware, the build number is displayed. Serial number (Storage system) is the serial number of the storage system and represents the ID of the system cluster for storage systems that run IBM Storage Virtualize.

Enclosure serial number represents unique attributes of the storage system. It provides better clarity and more granular insight into their storage infrastructure. Enclosure serial number is displayed for IBM Storage FlashSystem devices and Node serial number is displayed for the SVC devices on all storage system pages.

If a storage system displays a single enclosure or node serial number, then it appears as a clickable link. If the storage system displays multiple enclosure or node serial numbers, then the total count of all enclosure or node serial numbers appear as a clickable link. In both cases, clicking the link navigates you to the enclosure or node listing page of the storage system. For multiple enclosure or node serial numbers, an info icon appears next to the count link. Clicking this icon opens a tooltip that lists the serial numbers of all available enclosure or node serial numbers.

Right pane

Displays a page header at the top that contains information, such as page title, links to overview dashboard, and total number of systems. In aggregated view, the right pane displays Capacity, Capacity Usage Forecast, Workload protection, System protection, Environment (Sustainability), Performance, Top Volumes in Latency, Top Volumes in Throughput, and Top Volumes in IOPS.

Summary

The Summary widget in the individual device dashboard displays the following properties:

Disk Drives, Nodes, Enclosures, FC Ports, IP Ports, and zHyperLink Ports are Hardware components.
Note: zHyperLink port information is displayed only for DS8000 R10.0 or later storage systems, and only when zHyperLink is enabled on the system.
Volumes, Pools, Managed Disks, and RAID Arrays are Logical components
Chassis, Fabrics, Back-end Storage Systems, and Virtualizer Storage Systems are Connectivity components
Host and Host Connections are Hosts components
If there are any faults, alerts, and notifications that are detected in any component then an icon with the count is displayed below the component. The faults, alerts, and notifications for each component have subcategories, such as All, Critical, Warning, and Informational. Clicking these subcategories provides further details.
Each component displays the number of devices connected with the storage system. On clicking the number of devices, it navigates to the device detail page. For example, if the Disk drives device of Hardware component displays 112, then on clicking it navigates to Drives page.
Alerts: Displays the hyperlinked total number of unacknowledged critical and warning alerts. Clicking the alerts count will redirects you to the alerts details page of a specific storage system.
Tickets: Displays the hyperlinked total tickets count for the selected storage system. Clicking the tickets count will redirects you to the Tickets page.

Capacity

Capacity widget in individual device dashboard displays the total usable capacity values as a donut chart, used capacity, available capacity, data reduction, total savings, and provisioned data property details.

Click the three dots menu and select Capacity Savings to view the summary and chart of the capacity savings that includes deduplication, thin provisioning, drive compression, pool compression, and total compression.

Capacity view for IBM Storage FlashSystem 9.1.0 or later

For IBM Storage FlashSystem 9.1.0 or later and using Flash Core Module (FCM) drives with latest CLI support, the bar chart displays both percentage and numerical values for the following capacity metrics:

Physical capacity
Logical capacity
Capacity savings
Logical used capacity breakdown
Provisioned capacity

Note: Update the data collectors to view the capacity metrics in the bar chart.

Capacity view for DS8000 10.1 or later

For DS8000 storage systems running release 10.1 or later, the capacity widget provides enhanced visualization with architecture-specific views and capacity savings insights.

Important: The enhanced capacity widget is only available for DS8000 storage systems running release 10.1 or later. For earlier releases, the standard capacity widget is displayed.

Widget overview

The capacity widget helps you understand capacity usage and savings for your storage systems. In most cases, the widget displays data for a single architecture, either open systems (Fixed Block (FB)) or IBM Z (Count Key Data (CKD)). When both architectures are present, the widget shows a side‑by‑side comparison and additional navigation options.

Single architecture view: When your DS8000 R 10.1 or later storage system includes only one architecture, the widget displays a single, detailed view.

Capacity summary: At the top of the widget, you can quickly see the following capacity values:
- Used / Total physical capacity – Physical storage that is in use compared to total available capacity
- Used / Total logical capacity – Logical data size after savings technologies are applied
- Provisioned capacity – Total capacity allocated to volumes
Capacity visualization: The widget uses horizontal bars to help you compare capacity:
- Physical bar: Shows used and available physical capacity.
- Logical bar: Shows logical capacity and how it relates to physical usage.
- Provisioned bar: Shows how much capacity is allocated compared to available resources.
A legend explains each color, including used, thin‑provisioned, overhead, available, and provisioned capacity.
Capacity savings: The widget highlights savings metrics:
- Thin‑provisioned savings: Savings from allocating capacity on demand.
- Compression savings: Savings from data compression (available only for compression pools).
- Total capacity savings: Combined savings from thin provisioning and compression.
Each metric includes both percentage and absolute values for better analysis.
Unassigned capacity: At the bottom of the widget, you can view unassigned physical capacity, which represents available storage that is not yet allocated to pools or volumes.
Pool type filter: Use the toggle to switch between:
- Compression pools: View capacity and savings for compressed pools.
- Non‑compression pools: View raw capacity usage without compression.
This filter helps you compare how compression affects capacity usage and savings.

Dual architecture view: If your system includes both FB and CKD architectures:

The widget displays side‑by‑side panels for each architecture.
You can compare capacity and savings metrics directly.
The pool type toggle applies to both views.
The widget provides two pages. One for physical and logical capacity with savings metrics and other for provisioned capacity and allocation details. Use the navigation arrows to switch between pages.

Interactive Features

Pool type toggle: Click to switch between Compression pools and Non compression pools views.
Maximize option: Click the maximize icon (diagonal arrows) in the top right to view the capacity visualization in full-screen mode for detailed analysis.
Side-by-side comparison: View both FB and CKD architecture metrics simultaneously for easy comparison.
Information icons: Click the information icons (i) next to savings metrics to view detailed explanations and calculations.

Capacity usage forecast

Capacity usage forecast widget represents a forecast graph of the selected device that has 3 plotted entities, that is, historical growth, baseline growth, and used capacity. The timeline that is selected for the prediction is 1 year in the past and 1 year 1 day in the future. This graph is similar to the Capacity planning in the classic UI.

Workload protection

The widget displays the following property details:

Protected data: Total capacity of all unique volumes that serve as the source for replication or snapshot operations.
- Replication: Total capacity of all unique volumes that serve as source for replication operations.
- Snapshots: Total capacity of all unique volumes with snapshots or safeguarded copies.
- Safeguarded copies: Total capacity of all unique volumes with safeguarded copies.
Unprotected data: Total capacity of all unique volumes that are mapped to a host and are not part of any replication or snapshot operations.
Note: All unique CKD volumes that are not part of any replication or snapshot operations must be considered as unprotected. Host mapping is not a mandatory criteria for CKD volumes.

System protection

The System protection widget in the individual device dashboard displays ransomware threat detection. It displays the number of ransomware alerts that are generated on the device.

Environment widget

The environment widget monitors sustainability data, such as carbon emission, power, and temperature only for the IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6.2.0 or later, connected through Call Home with cloud services and DS8000 storage systems with firmware version 7.7.2.0 or later.

The CO₂e tab displays a bar graph with bulleted line graph showing the total power consumed (kWh) and carbon footprint (kgCO₂e) per day. The overall carbon footprint for the specific storage system over the last 7 days is also displayed.
Note:
- Carbon footprint is the measurement of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) emissions for a specific entity.
- IBM Storage Insights collects the power consumption data from the storage systems and calculates the carbon footprint by using the following formula:
```
CO2e = Energy consumption * PUE * CEF
```
  Where,
```
Energy consumption = Average power consumed * Number of hours
```
  - PUE is a ratio that describes how efficiently a computer data center uses energy. Specifically, how much energy is used by the computing equipment. PUE is the ratio of the total amount of energy used by a computer data center to the energy delivered to computing equipment. The closer PUE is to 1, the more efficient the computer data center.
  - CO2e factor (kgCO₂e/kWh) that is Carbon Emission Factor (CEF), is a measurement of how clean the electricity is. It refers to how many kilograms of carbon dioxide are released to produce 1 kilo watt-hour (kWh) of electricity. Electricity generated by using fossil fuels is more carbon intensive as the process emits the carbon dioxide. Renewable energy sources, such as wind, hydro, or solar power, does not emit carbon dioxide. So, their CEF is lower and often zero. Country specific CEF value is taken from Carbon Database Initiative website.
- Example: If energy consumption of a storage system is 0.05 kWh, carbon footprint is calculated as follows:
```
Carbon footprint = 0.05 * 1.5 * 0.25 = 0.01875 kgCO₂e
```
- By default, PUE is set to 1.5 and CEF is set to 0.25 kgCO₂e/kWh. You can modify these values in the Settings > Environment mterics page. For more information, see Monitoring environmental metrics in IBM Storage Insights.
- Editing the CEF and PUE constants is audited and the audit log is available for your reference. For more information, see Audit actions.
Power tab displays the total power consumed (KWatts) and power efficiency (KWatts or Raw TB) statistics for last 7 days in the bar graph.
Temperature displays the statistical data in a histogram graph with unit as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
You can view either of these graphs at any time by clicking the CO₂e, Power and Temperature tabs.
Click the zoom bar icon in the widget for expanded view of the environment metrics.
- In expanded view of the carbon emission (CO₂e) metric, you can view the details in table format, export the data to CSV, JPG, or PNG formats, and customize the duration for viewing carbon emission (CO₂e) trend.
Click the vertical dotted menu in the widget to perform the following actions:
- Analyze Metrics: Click to open the performance chart for the selected environment metric.
- Settings: Click to open the Environment page, where you can configure environment metric settings.

Performance

System performance statistics represent 3 different graphs, data rate, latency, and IOPS.
You can use the zoom bar located above the performance charts to focus on a particular portion of the performance data.
The drop-down represents the timeline for the graph. The default time that is selected is 24 hours. Relative time slots are 24 hr, 12 hr, 6 hr, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year according to classic GUI performance charts.

Top volumes by latency

It represents the top 5 volumes in terms of latency in the last 12 hours. This graph is same as the other 2 graphs, that is, throughput and IOPS. The line chart has data from the current parameter in the response. The value that is shown is the maxValue of latency for that volume. This value is represented besides the graph.

Top volumes by throughput

It represents the top 5 volumes in terms of throughput in the last 12 hours. The line chart has data from the current parameter in the response. The value that is shown is the maxValue of throughput for that volume. This value is represented besides the graph.

Top volumes by IOPS

It represents the top 5 volumes in terms of IO rate in the last 12 hours. The line chart has data from the current parameter in the response. The value that is shown is the maxValue of IOPS for that volume. This value is represented besides the graph.

Dashboard for IBM Storage Scale System

IBM Storage Insights provides a dedicated dashboard for IBM Storage Scale System monitored through Call Home with cloud services. The dashboard helps you view configuration and inventory information for your file storage environment from a centralized location.

To view the dashboard, go to the Overview page, select File storage from the drop-down menu, and then select the IBM Storage Scale System. Detailed information is displayed in the dashboard.

Note: The IBM Storage Scale System dashboard is available on the overview page in IBM Storage Insights. In IBM Storage Insights Pro, you can also access the dashboard from the storage system details page.

Table 1. Overview dashboard for IBM Storage Scale System
Tabs	Description
Overview	Summary View hardware and logical components with their real-time health status.
Overview	Widgets Use the available actions for each chart widgets like viewing chart information as table, viewing in the full screen, and exporting the capacity information in CSV, PNG, or JPG format. Also, organise the widgets as per your preference by clicking Organize widgets icon. The following capacity charts are displayed in each widgets: Capacity overview: The capacity overview donut chart provides a high-level view of the total storage capacity and how it is distributed between used and available space. You can use this chart to quickly assess overall capacity utilization and determine how much storage remains available. Total capacity Displays the total capacity of the selected storage system. Shown prominently in the center of the chart for quick reference. Used capacity Indicates the amount of storage space that is currently in use. Helps you understand current storage consumption and utilization levels. Available capacity Indicates the amount of storage space that is available for allocation. Helps you determine how much additional data can be stored before capacity is exhausted. Capacity by file system: The capacity by file system chart shows information about the fullest and largest file systems on the storage system. Fullest file systems A chart that shows up to six file systems with the least amount of available capacity. Largest file systems A chart that shows up to six file systems with the largest storage capacity. Each file system is represented by a bar on the charts. To view the following information about the file system, move the mouse pointer over the bar: Capacity The total amount of capacity on the file system, which includes the used and available capacity. Available capacity The total amount of unused storage capacity on the file system. Used capacity The total amount of used storage capacity on the file system. Inodes by independent fileset: Use the following charts to view inode information about the independent filesets that are associated with the storage system. An independent fileset has its own inode space. Other filesets might share the inode space and use inodes from the inode space. These charts are shown only for IBM Storage Scale System storage systems. Fewest available inodes A chart that shows up to six filesets with the fewest number of available inodes. Most inodes A chart that shows up to six filesets with the largest number of inodes. Each fileset is represented by a bar on the charts. Move the mouse pointer over a bar to view the following information for the fileset: Maximum inodes The total number of inodes in the inode space. This value consists of the available inodes and the used inodes. Available inodes The number of inodes that are available in the inode space. Used inodes The number of inodes that are already used in the inode space. This value consists of inodes that are used by this fileset and all dependent filesets. A dependent fileset shares the inode space of an independent fileset. The number of inodes that are used by this fileset are represented by the blue section of the bar. The inodes that are used by dependent filesets are represented by the dark gray section of the bar.
Capacity	Select the storage resources like storage systems, filesets, file systems, or pools from the Components tile. The capacity chart with the default metrics is visible towards the right side. You can also select multiple resources to compare their capacity charts one below the another. Also, type the resource component on the search icon to locate the resource faster. You can add more capacity metrics to the charts by clicking the Add metrics and selecting them. You can customize the capacity charts as per your preference. Select your preferred time zone like browser time zone, system time zone, etc. Set the duration for which capacity information to be investigated Choose the data resolution like sample, hourly, or daily to investigate the capacity behavior. You can export the capacity metrics data in PDF, HTML, and in CSV formats for your reference.

File storage

The file storage systems that are being monitored are displayed in a list on the left of the dashboard. In the modern UI of IBM Storage Insights, click the drop down menu and select File storage to view detailed information about the file storage system on the right of the dashboard.

See the following charts that show the capacity and trends in capacity usage for the file storage systems and their internal resources:

Total File System Capacity
Capacity by File System
Capacity by Pool and Capacity by File System Pool
Inodes by File System
Inodes by Independent Fileset

Total File System Capacity

The Total File System Capacity chart shows information about available and used capacity for the file systems on the storage system.

Tip: For an IBM Storage Scale System storage system, the available and used capacity information applies to file storage and object storage, if both file and object storage are monitored. For example, the available capacity value is the capacity that is available for use by either the file storage system or the object storage system.

The following information is shown:

Available Capacity: The total amount of available capacity on all of the file systems on the storage system or filer.
Used Capacity: The total amount of used capacity on all of the file systems on the storage system or filer.

Capacity by File System

The Capacity by File System chart shows information about the fullest and largest file systems on the storage system.

The following charts are shown:

Fullest File Systems: A chart that shows up to six file systems with the least amount of available capacity.
Largest File Systems: A chart that shows up to six file systems with the largest storage capacity.

Each file system is represented by a bar on the charts. To view the following information about the file system, move the mouse pointer over the bar:

Capacity: The total amount of capacity on the file system, which includes the used and available capacity.
Available Capacity: The total amount of unused storage capacity on the file system.
Used Capacity: The total amount of used storage capacity on the file system.

Capacity by Pool and Capacity by File System Pool

The Capacity by Pool chart and the Capacity by File System Pool chart show capacity information about the pools in storage systems that are configured for file storage such as IBM Storage Scale System and Storwize V7000 Unified.

Tip: For Storwize V7000 Unified, the chart label Capacity by File System Pool is shown. For IBM Storage Scale System, the chart label Capacity by Pool is shown.

Largest Pools: A chart that shows up to six pools with the largest storage capacity in the storage system.
Fullest Pools: A chart that shows up to six pools with the least amount of available capacity in the storage system.

Each pool is represented by a bar on the charts. To uniquely identify the pool, the pool name is prefixed with the file system name. To view the following information about the pool, move the mouse pointer over a bar:

Capacity: The total amount of file system capacity on all of the Network Shared Disks (NSDs) in the pool, which includes both the total amount of used and free capacity.
Available Capacity: The capacity on all of the free NSDs in the pool. The amount that is shown is the capacity that is available for provisioning new NAS shares.
Used Capacity: The capacity that is being used for file storage on all of the NSDs in the pool.

Inodes by File System

The Inodes by File System charts show inode information for file systems on storage systems that are configured for file storage such as IBM Storage Scale System and Storwize V7000 Unified.

Fewest Available Inodes: A chart that shows up to six file systems with the fewest number of available inodes.
Most Inodes: A chart that shows up to six files systems that have the largest number of inodes.

Each file system is represented by a bar on the charts. Move the mouse pointer over a bar to view the following information for the file system:

Maximum Inodes: The total number of inodes on the file system. This value consists of the available inodes and the used inodes for the file system.
Available Inodes: The number of inodes that are available within the file system.
Used Inodes: The number of inodes that are already used on the file system. Each time that you create a file or directory on the file system, an inode is allocated to the file or directory.

Inodes by Independent Fileset

Use the following charts to view inode information about the independent filesets that are associated with the storage system. An independent fileset has its own inode space. Other filesets might share the inode space and use inodes from the inode space. These charts are shown only for IBM Storage Scale System storage systems.

Fewest Available Inodes: A chart that shows up to six filesets with the fewest number of available inodes.
Most Inodes: A chart that shows up to six filesets with the largest number of inodes.

Each fileset is represented by a bar on the charts. Move the mouse pointer over a bar to view the following information for the fileset:

Maximum Inodes: The total number of inodes in the inode space. This value consists of the available inodes and the used inodes.
Available Inodes: The number of inodes that are available in the inode space.
Used Inodes: The number of inodes that are already used in the inode space. This value consists of inodes that are used by this fileset and all dependent filesets. A dependent fileset shares the inode space of an independent fileset.
The number of inodes that are used by this fileset are represented by the blue section of the bar. The inodes that are used by dependent filesets are represented by the dark gray section of the bar.

Community events

The community events bar appears at the bottom of every page in the modern UI and is available to all users, regardless of role. It displays upcoming community events in a continuously scrolling view, with each entry showing an event icon, date, and title so that you can quickly identify relevant activities.

Select an event to open a side panel that provides complete details, including event descriptions, schedules, and access or registration information. The community events bar automatically removes past events to ensure that only active announcements are displayed.