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Table 1. Recent blogs for IBM Spectrum Control
Recent blogs about IBM Spectrum Control.
Blog	Summary
A new subscription option for IBM Virtual Storage Center is now available!	Learn about the new subscription option for new customers who purchase an IBM Virtual Storage Center license.
IBM Spectrum Control: Performance monitoring hints and tips	Get some hints and tips to help you use IBM Spectrum Control Target file not found to monitor the performance of your storage.
IBM Spectrum Control: Performance monitoring for FlashSystem 900 -- don't forget the SNMP agent	Learn how to fix a performance monitoring problem for IBM FlashSystem® 900.
Sign up for the free 90-day trial of IBM Spectrum Control today!	Learn how to sign up for the free 90-day trial of IBM Spectrum Control, which provides an opportunity to use a set of tools for managing storage capacity, availability, alerts, events, performance, and storage systems.
IBM Spectrum Control: Spark joy with this Pro Tip for sorting switches	Learn how to sort switches so that physical switches and their virtual or logical switches are grouped together.
New release! IBM Spectrum Control, 5.4.2 has an update for IBM Virtual Storage Center	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.2.
Maximize your IBM DS8000® monitoring with the new release of IBM Spectrum Control!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.1.
Connections really matter! Direct connection to Brocade or Broadcom switches highlights new release of IBM Spectrum Control!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.0.
Whether Pure Flash Array monitoring or more capacity enhancements IBM Spectrum Control adds to your overall business uptime!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.7.
More, more and even more storage system monitoring and enhanced capacity reporting in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.6!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.6.
More third-party storage support & IBM Spectrum Virtualize family enhancements highlight IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.5 release	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.5.
IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control IBM Cloud® service highlights IBM Spectrum Control, 5.3.3!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.3.
Configuring alerts with alert policies highlights new release of IBM Spectrum Control!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.2.
New release of IBM Spectrum Control is now available: More reporting enhancements!	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.1.
Easy report creation and IBM FlashSystem 9100 monitoring highlight new release of IBM Spectrum Control	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.3.0.
New version of IBM Spectrum Control adds more monitoring information for IBM Spectrum Virtualize storage systems	Learn how IBM Spectrum Control provides more monitoring information for IBM Spectrum Virtualize, information on migrating reports to IBM Cognos® Analytics, and integration with external LDAP repositories, among other features and enhancements.
IBM Spectrum Control virtual mailbox: Refresh my memory, where does IBM Spectrum Control keep log files for its main components?	Learn about the locations of the log files for IBM Spectrum Control. You can view these log files to identify where problems occur, and you can provide them to IBM Support so that they can help resolve any problems.
IBM Spectrum Control virtual mailbox: Is there a way to see capacity summaries for my storage systems?	Learn how to use the overview charts for storage systems to answer key physical capacity, volume capacity, and capacity savings questions.

Table 2. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.15
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.15
Blog	Summary
Edit resource locations in bulk and use Cognos BI to report on capacity by location	Learn how to edit the locations of multiple resources at the same time and use Cognos BI to report on capacity by location.
A great time-to-value feature: IBM Spectrum Control auto-creates your agentless servers	Learn how 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.
Agentless servers : how to handle an inconsistency in your storage environment	Learn how to merge agentless servers that represent the same physical server so that a single agentless server is shown in IBM Spectrum Control.
Pearls in the documentation	Delve into the IBM Spectrum Control Knowledge documentation to discover information and tips that you might not be aware of but could find useful.

Table 3. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.14
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.14
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.14	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.14.
Monitoring a stretched cluster or Hyperswap environment	Learn how to monitor your stretched cluster or Hyperswap environment with IBM Spectrum Control.
How does today's response time compare with last week's?	Learn how to compare performance metrics across different time ranges to help troubleshoot potential bottlenecks in an application.
Pearls in the documentation	Delve into the IBM Spectrum Control Knowledge documentation to discover information and tips that you might not be aware of but could find useful.
IBM Spectrum Control virtual mailbox	Learn how to upload logs automatically and send them to IBM Support for investigation.

Table 4. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.13
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.13
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.13	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.13.
Chargeback and Consumer Reports: Don't show me the money!	Learn how to create a custom report that sends you a daily summary of the capacity used by applications without including storage costs.
Pearls in the documentation	Delve into the IBM Spectrum Control Knowledge documentation to discover information and tips that you might not be aware of but could find useful.
IBM Spectrum Control virtual mailbox	Learn how much capacity is consumed by replication. As a storage administrator you are asked to provide a capacity report across your entire storage environment to your CTO. A critical part of capacity reporting is understanding how much capacity is consumed by replication.

Table 5. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.12
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.12
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.12	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.12.
Consumer Reports: For your eyes only!	Learn how to 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.
Chargeback and Consumer Reports: Same price for the same storage	In chargeback and consumer reports, you want to ensure 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.
Chargeback and Consumer Reports: How much storage was really eaten?	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 is assigned to the storage consumer.
Look at that IBM FlashSystem data reduction!	FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R can reduce the size of your data significantly by using technologies such as compression and data deduplication. Learn how to see exactly what sort of savings you are getting, and how that compares to savings on other storage systems.
Pearls in the documentation	Delve into the IBM Spectrum Control Knowledge documentation to discover information and tips that you might not be aware of but could find useful.

Table 6. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.11
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.11
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.11	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.11.
Chargeback Reports: Who's eating my storage?	Whether you manage or own applications, departments, hypervisors, or physical servers, you want to know how much storage is being consumed and how much it costs to maintain the storage that is consumed. And, you want that information in your inbox now, every week or month so that you can keep a close eye on storage costs and capacity consumption.
Capacity and compliance: Know your software license in IBM Spectrum Control	Your business organization just purchased a software license(s) forIBM Spectrum Control or any IBM product that includes IBM Spectrum Control such as IBM® Virtual Storage Center or IBM Storage Software Suite and you want to assess your storage license situation.
Show your boss how your IBM FlashSystem compares	Learn how to compare the performance of your IBM FlashSystem to other storage systems. You can compare the response times and the I/O rates of IBM FlashSystem storage systems to other storage systems.
See how Cognos BI can help you create capacity and performance reports	Learn how to use the Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tool to report on the condition, capacity, and performance of your storage resources.
From the IBM Spectrum Control hints and tips virtual mailbox: Is there a way to simplify the process of scheduling probes?	The automated probe option enables the creation of a probe and collects status and asset information more efficiently about your storage resources for monitoring.
Pearls in the documentation	Delve into the IBM Spectrum Control Knowledge documentation to discover information and tips that you might not be aware of but could find useful.
Navigating the new knowledge documentation	Learn how to quickly find information in the new IBM Documentation and read about tips for getting the most out of its new interface.

Table 7. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.10
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.10
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.10	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.10.
Extracting bulk performance data for analysis was never easier!	Learn about how to export bulk performance data for a storage system or fabric to a compressed file. If you contact IBM Support to help you analyze a performance problem with a resource, you might be asked to send this file.
IBM Spectrum Control: Rollup reporting provides a dynamic view into a large enterprise environment	Learn about how to use rollup reporting to gain a network-wide perspective of storage usage in your environment when you have multiple IBM Spectrum Control servers deployed.

Table 8. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.9
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.,9
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.9	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.9.

Table 9. Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.8
Blogs about IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.8
Blog	Summary
IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.8	Learn about the features that were introduced in IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.8.
Monitoring the entire data path of object storage systems	Learn about how to monitor object storage implementation on IBM Spectrum Scale and troubleshoot along the entire data path.