Discovery using the Hardware Management Console (HMC): The HMC server manages LPAR servers and lets you discover information related to VIO servers and VIO clients. You can use the virtualization management option on the Veritas Operations Manager console to add the HMC server to Management Server.

To add the HMC server to Veritas Operations Manager, you need to install the Control Host add-on on the host where the HMC server should be added. Virtual SCSI disks on LPAR client are supported. However, NPIV, or virtual Fibre Channel disks are not supported. Currently, only Virtual SCSI disks backed by native or DMP devices are supported. By configuring HMC server only (without the VRTSsfmh package), you can discover information about the exported storage from the VIO server to the VIO clients and the devices that are given to the VIO server from the storage area network (SAN).

Discovery using the VRTSsfmh package that is installed on the LPAR client: The presence of the VRTSsfmh package on LPAR client provides additional information about them. This information is correlated with the information that is discovered using the HMC server. Virtual SCSI device discovery, and Virtual SCSI device correlation with the source device in VIO server is also supported.

Discovery using the VRTSsfmh package that is installed as a part of DMP on the VIO server: When a VIO server having DMP 6.0 is added, it provides the discovery of DMP backed exported storage along with the normal managed host discovery. For end-to-end correlation, DMP 6.0 on the VIO server is required. Storage mapping for DMP backed devices is available only if the VIO server (with DMP installed) is added to Veritas Operations Manager Management Server.

Storage Insight Add-on lets you discover complete information about arrays and LUNs from the SAN, which are allocated to the VIO server.