Insights

Displays the metrics that evaluates the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall performance of a storage system.

It has the following tabs:
  • Overall system activity: It monitors the overall activity of your storage system, which includes capacity, most active nodes, and most active volumes over the last 24 hours.

    For more information, see Overview charts.

  • Key performance indicators: IBM Storage Insights collects, processes, and visually represents comprehensive performance metrics from storage systems. These charts are available only for SVC, StorwizeU, Storwize, Flash Family, and Flash V devices.
    Note: If the device status is Unreachable in the Health column of Storage systems page, then the Insights menu option remains disabled.

    For more information, see IBM Storage Virtualize guideline values for key performance indicators.