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:
Table 1. Storage systems that can be monitored in IBM Storage Insights and IBM Storage Insights Pro
Storage System IBM Storage Insights IBM Storage Insights Pro
Click a storage system to view its supported versions.    
DS8000® Checkmark Checkmark
Dell EMC Unity   Checkmark
Dell EMC VMAX   Checkmark
Dell EMC VNX, VNXe   Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5000 Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5100 Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5200* Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 5300 * Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 7200* Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 7300* Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9100* Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9200* Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500* Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem V9000 Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage FlashSystem 900 Checkmark Checkmark
IBM FlashSystem A9000 Checkmark Checkmark
IBM FlashSystem A9000R Checkmark Checkmark
Hitachi VSP   Checkmark
Start of changeIBM Storage Ceph*End of change   Start of changeCheckmarkEnd of change
IBM Cloud Object Storage   Checkmark
IBM Storage Accelerate Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage Scale (ESS and GSS)   Checkmark
IBM Storage Virtualize software-only clusters Checkmark Checkmark
IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud Checkmark Checkmark
Lenovo Storage V3700 V2
Lenovo Storage V3700 V2 XP
Lenovo Storage V5030
   Checkmark
NetApp ONTAP 9   Checkmark
Pure FlashArray//M and FlashArray//X   Checkmark
SAN Volume Controller* Checkmark Checkmark
Storwize® V3500 Checkmark Checkmark
Storwize V3700 Checkmark Checkmark
Storwize V5000 Checkmark Checkmark
Storwize V7000 Checkmark Checkmark
Storwize V3500 for
Lenovo
Storwize V3700 for
Lenovo
Storwize V5000 for
Lenovo
Storwize V7000 for
Lenovo
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IBM Flex SystemFlashSystem V7000 Storage Node Checkmark Checkmark
Storwize V7000 Unified Checkmark
(block storage only)
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XIV® Checkmark Checkmark
* 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.
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
For a complete list of the supported switches, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6465529.

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.