Supported devices in IBM Storage Insights
Find out which storage devices and products that you can monitor with IBM Storage Insights.
Storage systems
In IBM Storage
Insights,
you can monitor IBM® block storage only. In IBM Storage
Insights Pro, you can monitor IBM block storage, and the following additional storage:
* Support for Call Home with cloud services:
- Storage systems that run IBM Storage Virtualize 8.5.3 and later and have 128 GB of memory per node can be integrated with IBM Storage Insights by using Call Home with cloud services.
- Only IBM Storage Ceph systems with version 7 or later are supported for monitoring in IBM Storage Insights through Call Home with cloud services. You cannot add IBM Storage Ceph systems to IBM Storage Insights through data collector.
Restriction: IBM Storage
Insights 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 and their firmware versions that can be monitored, check out https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6249369.
Fabrics and switches
To monitor fabrics and switches in IBM Storage
Insights Pro and IBM Storage
Insights, you can add the following types of
switches:
- Brocade
- Cisco
VMware vCenter Server
You can monitor the following VMware vCenter Server
components with IBM Storage
Insights:
- ESXi hosts of version 6.5 or later
- Virtual machines on ESXi hosts
Data collectors and web browsers
For information about the supported operating systems for data collectors and the web browsers that you can use with IBM Storage Insights, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324843.
Tip: Share or bookmark https://ibm.biz/insightsdevices as a handy reference for viewing the supported devices in IBM Storage
Insights and IBM Storage
Insights Pro.