Supported devices in IBM Spectrum Control

Find out which storage devices and products that you can monitor with IBM Spectrum® Control.

Storage systems

You can monitor the following storage systems with IBM Spectrum Control.

Table 1. Storage systems that can be monitored in IBM Spectrum Control
Storage System Block File Object
Click a storage system to view its supported versions.
DS8000® Checkmark
Dell EMC Unity Checkmark Checkmark
Dell EMC VMAX family Checkmark
Dell EMC VNX, VNXe Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5100 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5200 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 7200 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 7300 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9100 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9200 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem V9000 Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 900 Checkmark
IBM FlashSystem A9000 Checkmark
IBM FlashSystem A9000R Checkmark
Hitachi VSP Checkmark
IBM® Cloud Object Storage Checkmark
IBM Storage Accelerate™ Checkmark
IBM Storage Scale™ (ESS and GSS) Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage Virtualize™ software-only clusters Checkmark
IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud Checkmark
NetApp ONTAP 9 Checkmark Checkmark
Pure FlashArray//M and FlashArray//X Checkmark
SAN Volume Controller Checkmark
Storwize® V3500 Checkmark
Storwize V3700 Checkmark
Storwize V5000 Checkmark
Storwize V7000 Checkmark
IBM Flex SystemFlashSystem™ V7000 Storage Node Checkmark
Storwize V7000 Unified Checkmark
XIV® Checkmark
All others (managed by SMI-S providers) Checkmark
Restriction: IBM Spectrum Control doesn't support monitoring non-IBM software-defined storage devices. However, it can monitor IBM software-defined storage devices, such as IBM SAN Volume Controller. For a list of storage devices that can be monitored, check out https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6249369.
Tips:
  • To monitor the performance of a Storwize V7000 Unified storage system, you must add it as a block storage system.
  • To monitor an IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud storage system, you must configure it for communication with IBM Spectrum Control. For more information, see External link iconConfiguring IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud.

Switches and fabrics

You can monitor the following types of switches and fabrics with IBM Spectrum Control:
  • Brocade
  • Cisco
For a complete list of the supported switches, see External link iconhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6249365.

Hypervisors

You can monitor the following hypervisors with IBM Spectrum Control:
  • Virtual machines on KVM 2.0
  • Virtual machines on VMware ESX, ESXi, and vCenter Server
For a complete list of supported hypervisors, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6249425#hypervisor.

Servers

You can deploy Storage Resource agents to monitor the following servers with IBM Spectrum Control:
IBM AIX®
  • AIX 7.3
  • AIX 7.2
  • AIX 7.1
Linux®
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Microsoft™ Windows™
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
For a complete list of supported servers, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6249425.