Planning for IBM Storage Ceph Systems

IBM® Storage Ceph® system is a software-defined storage solution that distributes data across clusters of storage resources. Most storage products are block-only, file-only, object-only, or file-and-block. However, IBM Storage Ceph storage unifies file, block, and object data into one system and hence it's a unified storage system. You can use IBM Storage Ceph system for its unified file-block-object management, multi-platform support, scalability, and built-in fault tolerance.

To integrate an IBM Storage Ceph system with IBM Storage Insights, Call Home with cloud services must be enabled in your IBM Storage Ceph system. For more information about how to enable Call Home with cloud services in an IBM Storage Ceph system, see the following pages:

• To enable Call Home with cloud services using command line interface, see Enabling IBM Storage Insights support.
• To enable Call Home with cloud services using IBM Storage Ceph dashboard, see Enabling call home and IBM Storage Insights.

IBM Storage Insights can help you predict and prevent storage problems before they impact your business. Some key benefits of using IBM Storage Insights to monitor your IBM Storage Ceph system are as follows:

• View information about cluster ID, IP address, version, status, probe data collection, and many more.
• Monitor capacity information, such as used capacity, available capacity, and total capacity.
• Administer components like hosts, object storage demons, monitors, and managers.