IBM Storage Insights vs IBM Storage Insights Pro
Compare the features of IBM Storage Insights and IBM Storage Insights Pro.
- The free version is called IBM Storage Insights and provides a unified view of a storage environment with diagnostic event information, an integrated support experience, and key capacity and performance metrics. This includes component health overviews for switches and fabrics with key performance metrics. IBM Storage Insights is available at no cost to IBM Storage Insights Pro subscribers and owners of IBM® block storage systems who sign up.
- The capacity-based, subscription version is called IBM Storage Insights Pro and includes all the features of IBM Storage Insights plus a more comprehensive view of the performance, capacity, and health of storage resources. This includes key health, performance, and diagnostic information for switches and fabrics. It also helps you reduce storage costs and optimize your data center by providing features like intelligent capacity planning, storage reclamation, storage tiering, and advanced performance metrics. The storage systems that you can monitor are expanded to include IBM file, object, software-defined storage (SDS) systems, and non-IBM block and file storage systems, such as Dell EMC storage systems.
Compare the features in these two offerings:
Resource Management | Functions | IBM Storage Insights | IBM Storage Insights Pro |
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Monitoring | Inventory management | IBM block storage, switches, fabrics, and VMware ESXi hosts | IBM and non-IBM block storage, file storage, object storage, switches, fabrics, and VMware ESXi hosts |
Logical configuration | Basic | Advanced | |
Health | Call Home events | Call Home events | |
Performance | Basic
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Advanced
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Capacity | Basic
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Advanced
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Drill down performance workflows to enable deep troubleshooting | |||
Explore virtualization relationships | |||
Explore replication relationships | |||
Retention of configuration and capacity data |
2 years
(Only the last 24 hours is shown) |
2 years | |
Retention of performance data |
1 year
(Only the last 24 hours is shown) |
1 year | |
Exporting performance data to a file | |||
REST API access | |||
Service | Filter events to quickly isolate trouble spots | ||
Hassle-free log collection | * | ||
Simplified ticketing | |||
Show open and closed ticket history | * | ||
Reporting | Inventory, capacity, performance, and storage consumption reports |
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All reports |
Alerting | Predictive Alerts | ||
Customizable, multi-conditional alerting, including alert policies | |||
Inline threat detection (potential ransomware alerts) | |||
Realtime ransomware threat detection used with FlashCore Module 4 | |||
Analytics | Performance planning | ||
Capacity planning | |||
Business impact analysis (applications, departments, and groups) | |||
Distributing workloads across FlashSystem devices within a Flash Grid | |||
Optimize capacity with reclamation | |||
Security | ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management standards certified | ||
Pricing | Entitlements | Free | Capacity-based subscription |
Restriction: *You must have a current warranty or
maintenance agreement for an IBM block storage system to open
tickets and send log packages.
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:
https://ibmid.acrolinx.cloud/* Support for Call Home with cloud services:
- Storage systems that run IBM Storage Virtualize 8.5.3 and later and have 128 GB or more of system memory 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.
For the complete list of devices that you can monitor, see Supported devices in IBM Storage Insights.