Release notes for IBM Storage Insights

IBM® manages and updates IBM Storage Insights for you and constantly strives to address vulnerabilities and bugs before they impact your business. Learn about the latest security updates, compatibility issues, and bug fixes.

Security updates

When security issues or vulnerabilities are discovered in IBM Storage Insights or the cloud, the IBM Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) analyzes the issue and applies a fix automatically. Issues that require you to take action, such as upgrading your data collectors, are communicated through emails that are sent to the owner of your IBM Storage Insights instance.

To learn more about IBM security updates and PSIRT, check out the following links:
More information about security: For more information about security in IBM Storage Insights, check out these topics:

Bug fixes and improvements

In every update of IBM Storage Insights, IBM addresses bugs that are reported by internal teams and by our customers. Along with fixes, improving the operation and stability of the offering is also a priority. To track a fix, an Authorized Program Analysis Report (APAR) is created, which is a formal report from IBM development to customers that notified IBM of a problem or suspected defect.

To view the bugs that were fixed in this update and previous updates of IBM Storage Insights, see the APAR fix list.

Limitations and known issues

IBM strives to keep issues in IBM Storage Insights to a minimum, but occasionally they can't be avoided. Learn about the latest issues and limitations in the latest update:

Browser compatibility
If you are working with IBM Storage Insights in Mozilla Firefox, you might encounter some issues that can affect your browsing experience. This is a known issue.
Workaround: Try using a different browser, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari.
Missing metrics in reports
If you created Storage as a Service Capacity, custom, capacity, or inventory reports before 19 April 2022, some capacity and performance metrics (and their values) might be missing in the report results. For example, the following metrics are not included in Storage as a Service capacity reports:
  • Base Capacity
  • Used Capacity
  • Delta
To avoid this issue and include the missing capacity and performance metrics in your reports, try the following actions:
  • For a Storage as a Service Capacity report, recreate the report with the same settings and run it again. To create a Storage as a Service capacity report, go to Reports, click Create Report, and click Storage as a Service Capacity. If the new report contains the expected metrics, delete the old report.
  • For a custom, capacity, or inventory report, edit the existing report and go to the Edit Columns step. In the list of columns, deselect the columns that are missing from the report and then reselect them. Click Send to save and send the report.
Correlating VMware ESXi host drives to XIV storage system volumes
For an ESXi host with drives that are mapped to XIV volumes, information about the XIV storage system might not be displayed in the Drives section of the host's details page. To view the correlation between ESXi host drives and XIV volumes, follow these steps:
  1. On the details page for an ESXi host, click Block Storage Systems in the Related Resources section. Storage systems with volumes that are mapped to the host are displayed.
  2. In the list of storage systems, right-click the XIV storage system and select View Details.
  3. In the Related Resources section, click Hosts.
  4. Click the Disk Mappings tab. Information about the mapped host drives is displayed.
Monitoring limitations for switches and fabrics
  • You can't monitor the following Cisco switches at this time:
    • The Cisco Nexus family switches.
    • Cisco switches with the following SAN Extension module installed: DS-X9334-K9. To view the installed modules, use the show mod command on the switch CLI.
  • You can't monitor the IP storage modules (ethernet ports) or the Fiber Channel over IP (FCIP) tunnels on Cisco switches.
  • Any custom name that you apply to a fabric does not persist. When you edit the name of a fabric by right-clicking it, selecting View Properties, and clicking Edit, the name that you apply is reset when the next probe is run for that fabric.
Capacity By Tier chart is not available
On the details page for a storage system, pool metadata is not being displayed on the Overview > Capacity By Tier chart.
Incorrect overhead capacity
For some block storage systems, an incorrect value for overhead capacity might be reported.

IBM is aware of these issues and is working hard to address them as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.