IBM Storage Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Manager

The IBM® Storage Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Manager allows Operations Manager users to obtain comprehensive monitoring information about the IBM storage resources that are utilized in their virtualized environment.

The management pack can be downloaded from Spectrum Control and can then be deployed on the vCenter Operations Manager server.

After a VMware vCenter Operations Manager server is registered on Spectrum Control that is configured with storage arrays, storage spaces, services, and vCenter servers, storage-related data is pushed to the Operations Manager server every five minutes by default.

The dedicated IBM storage system adapter deployed on the vCenter Operations Manager server enables monitoring the XIV Storage System via the vCOps Manager. This adapter reports the XIV system-related information, such as monitoring data of all logical and physical elements, covering storage arrays, storage domains, storage pools, volumes, hosts, modules, target ports, disks, health status, events, thresholds, and performance. It also provides the dashboards that display detailed status, statistics, metrics, and analytics data alongside hierarchical flowcharts with graphic representation of XIV Storage System elements.

Relationships between the IBM Storage elements (storage arrays, ports, storage pools, volumes, host, host initiator, modules, domain) and datastores, virtual machines, and hosts are displayed graphically in a drill-down style, providing VMware administrators a complete and up-to-date picture of their utilized storage resources.

To visualize how this cloud interface is integrated in a virtualized environment, see Concept diagram.