Projects perspective
The Projects perspective is the default view in Storage Modeller. When you move to other perspectives, select
Perspectives → Projects to return to this default view.
A project is a collection of one or more storage systems that relates to a customer, a use case, or any model you want to create. All projects are stored in the cloud; you cannot store
them locally.
Here is the typical workflow for a project:
▪Create a project (see “Creating a project”).
▪Add storage systems to the Project.
▪Define and modify the storage systems hardware.
▪Define virtualization.
▪Add a workload for performance predictions.
▪Send a project through a formal Project Workflow, currently available only for projects that you define with IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS).
▪Support Projects. allows you to request an enhancement to Storage Modeller or report an error/bug.
Figure 5 Perspectives menu, as seen from the Projects perspective
Perspectives menu
The options in the
Perspectives drop-down menu are links that take you to the following views:
▪Projects: All projects that you have created or projects that others have shared with you. See
“Projects perspective”.
▪Workflows: All created projects under the Design pipeline. Currently only projects containing an IBM COS system will move through the workflow
pipeline. See “Workflow perspective”.
▪Support Projects: A snapshot of every project that you forward to Storage Modeller’s Support team in a Support form. See
“Support Projects perspective”.
▪Imported Data: A list of data that you have imported for use in workloads to assess the performance of your models. See
“Importing data for performance assessments”.