Using the IBM Storage
Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Use the IBM® Storage
Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations Manager to obtain comprehensive
monitoring information about the IBM Storage resources that are utilized in your virtualized
environment.
About this task
After successfully configuring Spectrum Control Base with vCenter Operations Manager, it
periodically starts sending XIV® systems information to vCenter
Operations Manager. You can view the detailed IBM Storage
dashboards, together with the graphical relationships between the storage elements (storage systems,
ports, storage pools, volumes) and virtual elements (datastores, virtual machines, hosts) in a
drill-down interactive style.
Note: This functionality is applicable only to XIV storage
systems.
Three main dashboards are available for XIV storage systems:
