Remote emulation of a storage system

A method comprising:

• generating, by a cloud-based system using historical status information associated with one or more storage systems, responses to a plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information;
• generating, by the cloud-based system using the generated responses to the plurality of requests, a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a historical view of a status of the one or more storage systems;
• and
• allowing, by the cloud-based system, authorized users to remotely access the GUI.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to:

• generate, by a cloud-based system using historical status information associated with one or more storage systems, responses to a plurality of requests directed to the one or more storage systems as if the cloud-based system was the one or more storage systems associated with the historical status information;
• generate, by the cloud-based system using the generated responses to the plurality of requests, a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a historical view of a status of the one or more storage systems;
• and
• allow, by the cloud-based system, authorized users to remotely access the GUI.