Using the IBM Storage Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager

Use the IBM® Storage Management Pack for VMware vRealize 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 vRealize Operations Manager, it periodically starts sending the storage system information to vRealize 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: In version 3.0.x, the IBM Storage Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager does not support the DS8000 family storage systems.

Three main dashboards are available for IBM® storage systems:

In addition, you can:

Monitor storage system resources. See Displaying the overview of IBM storage objects.
Define thresholds and alerts for storage resources and metrics in the Overview and Performance dashboards. See Defining thresholds and alerts for storage objects.

Procedure

To view the IBM storage dashboards, complete the following steps.

Click Dashboard List > IBM Storage and select the required dashboard.

This screen capture shows IBM Storage option — Figure 1. vROps GUI – IBM STORAGE option

The selected dashboard is displayed. The following icons are used to represent the IBM storage elements.

Table 1. IBM Storage Icons in vROps
Icon	Description
	IBM storage adapter
	IBM storage system
	IBM storage system, running Spectrum Virtualize
	IBM disk
	IBM MDisk
	IBM domain
	IBM host
	IBM Host Fibre Channel (FC) initiator
	IBM host iSCSI initiator
	IBM module
	Flash canister
	Flash enclosure
	Flash card
	IBM module FC port
	IBM module iSCSI port
	IBM pool
	IBM child pool
	IBM volume
	IBM I/O group