Product licenses
Multiple product licenses are available for IBM Spectrum Control. Each license determines the features that you can access from the IBM Spectrum Control GUI, command prompt, command-line interface, and the API.
Important licensing update: The calculation for determining license compliance in IBM Spectrum Control was updated to better meet your needs. For detailed information about the new licensing calculation and how it impacts you, check out the documentation for a more recent release of IBM Spectrum Control at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-control/5.4.2?topic=licenses-licensing.
Compare the features of these four offerings:
Feature | IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition and IBM Spectrum Control Standard Select Edition | IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition and IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Select Edition |
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Understanding the environment | ||
Support for a single dashboard view of the environment to manage storage systems, hypervisors, servers, and Fibre Channel fabrics. | ![]() |
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Capacity monitoring of storage systems, pools, volumes, file systems, and file sets. | ![]() |
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Performance monitoring of storage systems, Fibre Channel networks, applications, and departments. | ![]() |
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Defining groups of resources that represent applications or departments. | ![]() |
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Defining tiers of storage for planning and reporting. | ![]() |
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Health and alerting | ||
Show health status of hypervisors, networks, servers, and storage systems, and selected internal entities. | ![]() |
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Alerting on status changes and thresholds of capacity, performance and error metrics. | ![]() |
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Reporting | ||
Web GUI reports: Reports that you can create from the information in the user-interface tables. You can configure, schedule, and save this information to your file systems. Or you can specify to send it to another user or person by mail. | ![]() |
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Web GUI reports: Capacity and inventory reports. | ![]() |
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Web GUI reports: Chargeback reports for showing the capacity and the cost of the storage that is used by applications, departments, hypervisors, and physical servers. | ![]() |
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Web GUI reports: Consumer reports for showing the capacity and the cost of the block storage that is used by an application, department, hypervisor, and physical server. | ![]() |
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Web GUI reports: Roll up reports in which capacity data is combined from multiple instances of IBM Spectrum Control for reporting purposes. | ![]() |
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External reports: Reports that use REST API and Cognos®. | ![]() |
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Transforming | ||
For storage systems that run IBM Spectrum Virtualize, the transform storage feature moves volumes, and configures compression and the properties of the volumes. | ![]() |
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Analyzing | ||
Analytics-driven tiering to automatically move volumes to the most cost-effective tier. | ![]() |
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Analysis of storage-pool balancing to generate recommendations to help you optimize storage resources. | ![]() |
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Storage reclamation that you can realize when the block storage systems in your data center are analyzed, and you determine and reclaim volumes that aren't used for storing data. You can replace the existing storage space instead of purchasing new storage media. | ![]() |
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Provisioning | ||
File provisioning for IBM® Storwize® V7000 Unified. | ![]() |
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Other | ||
Inclusion of the license for IBM Copy Services Manager to manage 2-site replication, 3-site replication, and advanced copy services. Learn more about how to download and install Copy Services Manager at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSESK4. | ![]() |
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Snapshot-based protection that is provided by IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot for the applications and databases that IBM Spectrum Control uses. | ![]() |
To view a complete list of devices that can be used with IBM Spectrum Control, go to http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21386446.
IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control:
IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control is an IBM Cloud service that can help you predict
and prevent storage problems before they impact your business. It is complementary to IBM Spectrum
Control and is available at no additional cost if you have
an active license with a current subscription and support agreement for IBM Virtual Storage Center,
IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, or any edition of IBM Spectrum
Control.
For more information and to view a list of features in the service, see IBM Storage Insights for IBM Spectrum Control.