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  • 1.  IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Thu January 07, 2021 12:51 PM

    Are there any Influx/Grafana implementations with IBM storage products (mainly Virtualize)?
    I found one project on github: jbrt/svc2influxdb

    Anything else?
    Thank you



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  • 2.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Fri January 08, 2021 11:09 AM

    IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows uses Grafana, as described in this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bY2PoUWWA



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  • 3.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Tue January 19, 2021 04:56 AM
    Hi Ingrida. Thank you.

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  • 4.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Mon January 18, 2021 05:52 PM
    Hi Richard,
    the open source project SPPMON was implemented to provide comprehensive monitoring options for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
    The implementation bases on Influx and Grafana.
    Find the project here: spectrum-protect-sppmon
    - Dominic

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  • 5.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Mon January 18, 2021 05:52 PM
    The open source project SPPMON was implemented to provide comprehensive monitoring options for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. 
    It bases on Influx and Grafana. Find the project here: spectrum-protect-sppmon

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  • 6.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Tue January 19, 2021 05:08 AM
    Hi Dominic.
    Looks very good.
    Now I need the analog for IBM Storage products (e.g. for IBM SVC/Storwize/FlashSystem/DS8k)
    Thank you

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  • 7.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Fri January 22, 2021 03:51 PM
    I was looking for this as well and did find this project on what I assume is the official IBM github. But it seems like they forgot to actually upload the binariies...  https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter

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  • 8.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Mon January 25, 2021 03:28 AM

    Hello Jeff,

    I have check in our internal directory and found out that Steve no longer works for IBM. Since I don't work in that organization I don't have an further insights, but I have played with Ansible and Influx DB, where I was able to get data from SV, and save it into Grafana. However I think you are looking for performance data, and I have work on "regular" metrics from ls... commands.

    Sorry I could not help more.
    Markus



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  • 9.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Mon January 25, 2021 09:52 AM
    Hello Richard,

    The SVA tool BVQ also provides Grafana dashboards for IBM Sectrum virtualize like storage.     If you only want to do monitoring, you can cover that very inexpensively with the right edition. Alerting, reporting and systems health map are also included. (I am from the BVQ team)


    This is the link to our technical documentation:
    https://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/2YAwBQ



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  • 10.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Mon January 25, 2021 01:57 PM

    Thanks a lot for your responses.
    (and sorry to hijack the thread @Richard)

    In my case, I do have Spectrum Control which I use quite a lot. The thing is that people are wanting these days a "single pane of glass". Where Grafana would be the one place that everyone can look at all system metrics, at least at a high level. This allows SRE to correlate SAN activity such as a large spike in Latency for example, with other server activity before escalating to the Storage SME.

    I'm not sure if the screencap I've posted here will work. But this is an example I have running that tracks one of  my V7000 in Grafana, it's been running fine for several years but is super finicky if I want to add new storage arrays, unknown whether 9200 will even work with it for example.

    So I guess my real issue is that I'm forced to run an unofficial, not maintained collector with minimal instructions, where preferably there would be an official one produced by IBM.



    Regards,
    Jeff Allen

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  • 11.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Tue January 26, 2021 12:14 PM

    Hello Jeff,

     

    BVQ is not an IBM tool either, but is listed in the IBM Solution Directory and it has been running for our customers for over 12 years. My company SVA GmbH is an IBM Platinum Partner and one of the largest IBM partners worldwide.

     

    We have a close cooperation with IBM and we upgrade our software for all new code levels from IBM Spectrum Vitualize Codes and are very early on to support these code levels.

     

    Especially for Spectrum Virtualize we have packed all our knowledge into this software and have created the most sophisticated analysis tool for Spectrum Virtualize. Not only analysis but also alerting, monitoring and reporting through to ITSM interfaces.

     

    We collect the data the same way as a spectrum control does and save it in our database. We integrate a new Storwize, SVC or Flash with a few clicks of the mouse and then the data appears in all of our connected products.

     

    It gets exciting when you combine storage with compute - i.e. storage with VMware and / or Power VM. Then we can analyze between the platforms - i.e. who is unloaded whom, which volume is loaded by an LPAR or a VM. USW: And all of this very easily via web dashboards.

     

    You can try it out. If you come from the USA, then I can send your address to our partner in USA, who can easily take over here. You can also contact me directly!

     

    BVQ has an edition system and if you only want to do monitoring, reporting and alerting, we can cover this very cheaply with a special edition. Regardless of whether subscription or license purchase.

     

    Have a look into our brochure and into the spec sheets:

    I give you the link to our technical website

    https://bvqwiki.sva.de/display/BVQ/BVQ+platforms+and+editions

     

     

     

     

     

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  • 12.  RE: IBM Storage & Influx/Grafana

    Posted Tue January 26, 2021 09:10 PM
    Edited by System Admin Wed March 08, 2023 03:57 PM

    hi Jeff,

    Regarding to your "single pane of glass" requirement, I would like to highlight a few things you might not be aware of currently in IBM Spectrum Control (or IBM Storage Insights). 

    There are a few controls as described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5R93_5.4.1/com.ibm.spectrum.sc.doc/tpch_r_performance_view_controls.html
    and 2 of those controls are : 
    - Open the performance view in a separate web browser window
    - Synchronize the time range across all the open performance views

    I'm attaching here a screen capture which hopefully illustrates the controls

    ibm spectrum control performance chart controls

     
    so you can drill-into the performance of a Disk from the Storage level (or ports) and you can open URL address-able panels for your performance investigation, then for example you see something out of the line for mdisk around time X, please note that you can change the interval at the top using 1h, 6h .. 1yeah, or bellow the chart if you prefer a specific time frame,  then if you hit "Synchronize time range .."  then all the other panels will sync with the panel where you found a possible culprit.

    As mentioned, these Performance Charts are URL address-able, you can build very easily a single pane (with performance charts of your choise) using a simple HTML page, embed it into an IFRAME.
    Similarly the Performance Chart can be embedded into a Grafana dashboard : https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/sharing/share-panel/   i suspect if you provide that URL it should work, though I never tried.  




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