HP SAN - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................6
HP Storage SAN Visibility package contents................................................................................7
Hardware and software requirements..........................................................................................7
2 Install, repair, and remove SAN Visibility.......................................................9
Supported Operating Systems....................................................................................................9
Installer prerequisites.................................................................................................................9
Installing/Updating SAN Visibility..............................................................................................9
Repair SAN Visibility..............................................................................................................10
Removing SAN Visibility..........................................................................................................11
3 Using SAN Visibility.................................................................................12
SAN Visibility GUI..................................................................................................................12
SAN Visibility menus..........................................................................................................13
Using SAN Visibility...............................................................................................................14
Accessing the SAN Visibility GUI.........................................................................................14
Specifying SAN details.......................................................................................................15
Adding SAN details......................................................................................................15
Supporting switch details....................................................................................................16
Adding a switch............................................................................................................17
Modifying switch details.................................................................................................18
Removing a switch.........................................................................................................18
Removing a component group........................................................................................19
Renaming a component group........................................................................................19
Clear All a component group..........................................................................................20
Specifying host details........................................................................................................21
Supported operating systems..........................................................................................22
Host discovery interfaces................................................................................................22
Server configurations.....................................................................................................22
Discovering hosts..........................................................................................................23
Adding hosts................................................................................................................23
Modifying login details of a host ....................................................................................23
Specifying customer details.................................................................................................24
Adding contact details...................................................................................................24
Specifying advanced settings (optional)................................................................................25
Specifying HBA-Host map details (optional)......................................................................25
Importing HBA-Host map files.....................................................................................25
Creating HBA-Host map files......................................................................................26
Specifying FICON switch details (optional).......................................................................27
Loading IOCP files....................................................................................................27
Removing IOCP files.................................................................................................27
Specifying type of SAN components to be displayed in the processed report (optional)..........28
Customizing SAN device labels to be displayed in the topology diagrams (optional).............30
Checking compatibility between different SAN components................................................32
Initiating data collection......................................................................................................35
Data collection methods......................................................................................................37
SNMP based data collection..........................................................................................37
SMI-Agent based data collection (for Brocade switch)........................................................37
Sending raw data file to HP................................................................................................38
Manually emailing raw data files to HP............................................................................38
Enabling auto emailing of raw data................................................................................39
EVA to 3PAR Storage Migration......................................................................................40
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