Enclosure Capabilities panel options

Use this wizard panel to add or update the physical and logical capabilities of the array that you want to discover using the Storage Insight Plug-in.

Table: Enclosure Capabilities panel options

Field

Description

Physical Characteristics

Discover Physical Disks

Select the check box to discover the physical disk of the enclosure.

Terminology for Physical Disks

Enter or update the terminology that you want to use for the discovered physical disks. By default, its value is set to Physical Disk.

Upon successful discovery of an array, the discovered physical disks are listed under Physical Disk tab on Veritas Operations Manager console.

This field is available only when you select the Discover Physical Disks check box.

Discover Array Ports

Select the check box to discover the array ports of the enclosure.

Discover Adapters

Select the check box to discover the adapters of the enclosure.

Discover RAID Groups

Select the check box to discover the RAID groups of the enclosure.

Terminology

Enter or update the terminology that you want to use for the discovered RAID groups. By default, its value is set to Raid Group. The discovered RAID groups are listed under the Raid Group tab on Veritas Operations Manager console.

This field is available only when you select the Discover RAID Groups check box.

Select the Discover raid group to source physical disk mappingcheck box to discover RAID group to source physical disk mapping.

Logical Characteristics

Discover Logical Disks

Select the check box to discover the logical disks (LUNs) of the enclosure.

Terminology for Logical Disks

Enter or update the terminology that you want to use for the discovered logical disks. By default, its value is set to Logical Disk. The discovered logical disks are listed under Logical Disk tab on the Veritas Operations Manager console.

This field is available only when you select the Discover Logical Disks check box.

Discover Logical Disk to Host Mapping

Select the check box to discover the logical disk to host mapping for the enclosure. This field is available only when you select the Discover Logical Disks check box. This option allows the storage discovered by the agentless hosts to be co-related with the storage discovered out of band by the Storage Insight plug-in. It also enables the correlation with the back-end enclosures if the array being discovered is a virtualizer.

Discover Logical to Physical Disk Mapping

Select the check box to discover the logical disk to physical disk mapping for the enclosure. This field is available only when you select the Discover Logical Disks check box.

Discover RAID group to logical disk mapping

Select the check box to discover RAID group to logical disk mapping. This field is available only when you select the Discover Logical Disks check box.

Discover meta logical disks

Select this check box to discover the meta logical disks. This field is available only when you select the Discover Logical Disks check box.

Terminology for meta logical disks

Enter or update the terminology that you want to use for the discovered meta logical disks. By default, its value is set to Meta Head. The discovered meta logical disks are listed under this tab on the Veritas Operations Manager console.

This field is available only when you select the Discover meta logical disks check box.

Discover Replications

Select the check box to discover the replications for the enclosure.

Select the Discover remote replication check box to discover remote replications. This field is available only when you select Discover Replications check box.

Discover thin pools

Select this check box to discover thin pools from the enclosure.

Terminology

Enter or update the terminology that you want to use for the discovered thin pools. By default, its value is set to Thin Pool. The discovered thin pools are listed under the Thin Pool tab on the Veritas Operations Manager console.

Discover thin pool to source device mapping

Select this option to discover the thin pool to source device mapping. This option is available only when you select the Discover thin pools check box.

When you select the Discover thin pool to source device mapping check box, additionally Device to back up the thin pools option is also available to you. Select the type of devices to back up the thin pools - logical or physical.

Discover thin pool to logical disk mapping

Select this option to discover thin pool to logical disk mapping. This option is available only when you select the Discover thin pools check box.

More Information

Creating a Storage Insight plug-in

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