IBM Storage Insights

IBM® Storage Insights is built to deliver fast results. Download the data collector to a server in your data center. It gathers storage usage metrics and sends them over a secured channel to Storage Insights in IBM Cloud, which provides storage analysis. The solution returns insight and recommendations quickly using metrics data that would take weeks to analyze on a spreadsheet.

Storage Insights provides single pane monitoring of your storage environment -- and quick views of storage from the server, application and file system perspective. You can customize application and department views—email, SAP or recovery site storage, for example, in just a few steps. These views enable you to report on application or departmental use of storage, as well as provide opportunities to optimize performance and save money.

IBM Storage Insights Pro provides technology that makes tier recommendations based on actual data usage, regardless of original expectations. Data can be migrated from top-tier to mid-tier storage with confidence, knowing that service levels won’t be compromised. Significant savings are possible because the total cost of top-tier storage is much higher than just the initial invoice—with software and maintenance fees significantly higher than mid-range storage.

No charge IBM Storage Insights offers a dashboard for monitoring the basic health, capacity and performance of your IBM block storage (and external storage when used with SVC, FlashSystem, and Storwize families) and cloud storage managed by IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud. Storage Insights Pro supports the same block storage, adds select non-IBM block storage, file and object storage, and provides additional details, analysis, and longer data history for even greater insight.

IBM Storage Insights provides streamlined interaction with IBM support. Features include Call Home, data collectors, automatic support for log uploading, and easy ticket creation and management. IBM support staff use read-only access to diagnostic information about monitored storage systems to proactively help resolve problems and provide recommendations.

IBM Storage Insights Pro supports select non-IBM storage systems: Dell-EMC VNX, VMAX, and Unity, NetApp FAS and AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray//X and M, and HDS VSP G Series systems. This capability enables you to monitor the health of even more of your storage, whether from IBM or others, all from a single dashboard.

IBM Storage Insights supports IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud on IBM Cloud and AWS. Monitor and report on your on-prem and public cloud storage from a single dashboard providing a comprehensive view of your entire hybrid multicloud storage environment.