Storage system resources

Earlier users need to go to the classic UI from the carbonized UI to view the details of storage system resources, such as drives, ports, storage pools, and host connections. As a part of UI modernization, now the separate pages are developed to show the details of storage system resources in the carbonized UI. Now, the users do not need to go to the classic UI to view details of resources associated with the storage systems. In the classic UI, the pages are already available under diffident menus. However, as part of the modernizing the UI, the pages are regrouped under logical categories in the carbonized UI.

When a user clicks a storage system name under the Storage systems column in the storage system tabular view, the storage system overview page is displayed along with a side navigation window. The name of the storage system is displayed as the header of the side navigation window along with the health status icon of the storage system. The window allows users to get the details of associated resources for the selected storage system. From the navigation window, user can access different pages that are grouped under the Hardware, Logical, Hosts resources, and Connectivity sections.

The page name displays the count of resources in parentheses along with the health status icon if the health status is other than the normal. If the health status is normal, the page name is displayed only the count of resources in parentheses. For example, if a storage system has two I/O groups in the normal health status, the I/O group page name is displayed as I/O group (2) in the side navigation window. The pages support the common carbonized UI operations, such as text-based search, quick filters based on health conditions, custom filters, column chooser, row height selection, ordering of columns, and exporting of the data in different formats. As the pages do not support any storage system operations, the overflow menu icon is not available to the users in the tabular view.

When a page loads, the initial sorting of the data on the pages is the same as the classic IBM Storage Insights view. All the columns support sorting of data by clicking the header columns of the table. Based on the role of the logged in user and the available license, data columns are filtered and displayed on the storage system resource pages as currently followed in the classic view. he

In addition to the page-specific data tab, the pages display Capacity and Performance tabs as and where applicable. The Capacity and Performance tabs are displayed by using the existing classic IBM Storage Insights view.

The following table displays the availability of Performance and Capacity tabs on different resource pages.

The Performance and Capacity tabs display the existing classic IBM Storage Insights view. For more information, see Controls for performance views and Capacity views.

For more details, see Block storage system details page.