Richard Siemers wrote:
IMC was a great tool. While I appreciate HPe's decision to move toward SSMC to have that "unified look" that aligns with all other HPe products... they lost some functionality and ease of use along the way.
Old versions of IMC in the 2.4 era used to let you view all VV's in one list, from across all your arrays. This was great for me because it made managing a complex ESX environment that had LUNs from multiple T800s a breeze. You could sort the list by what host(s) the luns were exported too, and had a column for the array name as well. Never needed to export anything to excel, the IMC gui had all the columns and data I needed, and it was dynamic and real time.
Indeed, they did break a few handy IMC features over the years (mostly due to rewrites to allow larger scale arrays/environments) but generally it was very admin friendly. If they'd been running SSMC when we selected 3PAR I might have been less inclined to pick it.
I've yet to see a native to web GUI migration make an improvement.