Discovery Experience with IBM Storage

[SNFan]

Hi - Has anyone successfully used (CIM) discovery against the following SAN gear? Any experiences to share?

• IBM V7000
• IBM XIV
• IBM SVC
• IBM Flash 840

[marius_horja]

Hello,

  I discovered successfully 13 of 15 IBM XIV Storage Arrays (Gen 2 and Gen 3).

I have challenges with IBM SVC (7.2 and 7.3), IBM FLASH 840 and IBM V3700.

For XIVs Discovery process it's running by default:

1. Use a local XIV user for credentials

2. In discovery schedule set/define behavior as CIM (SLP & CIM)

3. In discovery schedule be sure to define all 3 IP's used by XIV (Discovery Ip Ranges)

4. Update and run discovery

5. Check   discovery logs after discovery has been run and check if storage it's defined in Storage Servers after.

If you have any failures like: authentication failure be sure to open a ticket with IBM and have them reset CIMOM Services (from some to some time - those services remains hung, and only IBM have access to restart them as needs to be run under root).

If you find a solution regarding: SVC, 840 or V3700 please let me know. (as i cannot find anything related to those storage arrays).

Thanks,

Marius

[SNFan]

Thanks this is very helpful. Do you have any description on the failure with SVC, IBM FLASH 840 and IBM V7000? Is it an authentication issue or just no useful data is returned?

[marius_horja]

Hello, descriptions regarding SVC can be found in below tread. I put some pictures returned by Discovery. Hope this will help.

I will put soon also some pictures regarding IBM FLASH 840.

IBM SVC Discovery

Thanks,

Marius

[marius_horja]

Any others news regarding IBM SVC ? I am not able to make discovery run...

Maybe somebody from ServiceNow, who already implemented IBM SVC Discovery in other places can give us small help.

Does anybody from Service Now, can help us please?