Hi,
Just wanted to say we're very happy with System Manager...its such an improvement over FilerView. I hope a lot of effort continues going into developing & improving it...
As we use it frequently, I do have a few suggestions for improvements/feature requests:
1.) Performance -- it seems like the app calls to the filer every time I do something. For instance, when I open aggregates it has to query for all the disk info. For an 80 disk aggregate this takes maybe 4 or 5 seconds during which time I can't do anything (hourglass icon). If I click volumes and then come back to aggregates it does this again. So it seems like NSM is constantly querying live to the filers for info. Can't it cache some of this to speed up responsiveness? Maybe store some of this info in a small local database so it can read it locally and update periodically.
2.) Add a 'Used Space' column in volumes view. This data is in the Aggregate space breakout..it would be nice to have it in the volume list too.
3.) Add the ability to add, remove, customize or move around columns.
4.) Add a FILTER or SEARCH capability -- when I'm in volumes it would be nice to search and only show volumes with "ESX" in the name... or only show me volumes that are > 90% used... or only show me volumes in specified aggregate.
5.) Add a column under LUN Management view to show which igroup each LUN is mapped to -- the way like it's displayed in FilerView.
6.) Add some kind of view for igroups to show all assigned LUN IDs. When creating a LUN it can sometimes be a chore to figure out what the next available LUN # is.
7.) Add the ability to select multiple volumes and apply certain settings (Space, Auto size, Dedupe and Advanced tab settings).
We use System Manager a lot and I think these would be very useful features/enhancements.
-Brian
