About the Veritas Operations Manager Storage Insight Add-on for Deep Array Discovery and Mapping


About the Veritas Operations Manager Storage Insight Add-on for Deep Array Discovery and Mapping
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Veritas Operations Manager Storage Insight Add-on for Deep Array Discovery and Mapping, with its deep array discovery capabilities, provides you the detailed information on the storage enclosures in the datacenter. The Storage Insight Add-on lets you view the detailed storage information on an enclosure to the level of adapters and disks. Also, you can perform storage management operations on the level of adapters and disks.

This version of the Storage Insight Add-on is supported only on Veritas Operations Manager versions 4.0, and later.

As part of its deep array discovery capabilities, the Storage Insight Add-on lets you manage the following enclosures:

HITACHI	Storage Insight Add-on uses the HiCommand server to gather the information.
IBM XIV	Storage Insight Add-on uses the XCLI utility that communicates to the IBM XIV systems using the TCP/IP protocol to gather the information.
EMC Symmetrix	Storage Insight Add-on uses the SymCLI utilities to gather the information.
EMC CLARiiON	Storage Insight Add-on uses the NavisecCLI utility to gather the information.
NetApp	Storage Insight Add-on uses the NetApp Data ONTAP SDK interface utility to gather the information.

You must configure deep array discovery on the following enclosures to get the deeper information:

HITACHI
IBM XIV
EMC Symmetrix
EMC CLARiiON
NetApp

After you configure deep discovery for these enclosures, the discovery happens once every six hours and the Veritas Operations Manager database is updated accordingly.

Note:

To perform deep array discovery of enclosures, you require the access to storage views and operations.

After the Storage Insight Add-on performs the deep discovery of enclosures, you can view the following types additional information on the details page of each enclosure:

Logical devices
Physical devices
Thin pools
Host associations
Replications

Apart from providing deeper insight on your enclosures, the Storage Insight Add-on also lets you define the tiers for the LUNs in the datacenter. The tiering of LUNs supports the Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), which manages the data by putting them into different types of storage media according to various parameters. Also, the Storage Insight Add-on lets you perform the maintenance of the Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) paths in the level of array ports and adapters.