Providing a user interface to enable selection of storage systems, components within storage systems and common performance metrics for generating performance metric reports across storage systems and components

A storage system graphical user interface (GUI) renders indication of a plurality of selected storage systems. Selection is received of selected storage systems from the rendered indication of selected storage systems and a determination is made of performance metrics common to the selected storage systems. A performance metric GUI enabling selection of the determined performance metrics common to the selected storage systems is generated. In response to user selection of at least one selected performance metric of the determined performance metrics in the performance metric GUI, determination is made of performance metric values for the at least one of the selected performance metrics for the selected storage systems. A computer renderable visualization providing a visual comparison for each of the at least one selected performance metric of the determined performance metric values is generated for the selected storage systems.