Veritas InfoScale™ Operations Manager 7.3.1 Add-ons User's Guide

Adding EMC Symmetrix storage enclosures for deep discovery

The Storage Insight Add-on provides you detailed information on the storage enclosures in your data center. It uses SymCLI utilities that communicate to the Symmetrix enclosures in your data center. The SymCLI utilities must be configured on the discovery host, which must be part of the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager domain.

You can perform deep discovery also for the Symmetrix enclosures that are connected the discovery hosts using the EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF).

After you add EMC Symmetrix enclosures for deep discovery, the discovery happens once every six hours. After the initial discovery, only add, remove, commit, resume, suspend, or split actions on the following are captured in the subsequent discoveries:

You must use SymCLI Version 7.0 or later to perform deep discovery on the EMC Symmetrix storage enclosures. To discover the Media Type and the RPM of disks in a Symmetrix enclosure, you must use SymCLI Version 7.1 or later.

For more information on SymCLI versions for discovering FAST managed storage groups in a Symmetrix VMAX enclosure, refer to Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Hardware and Software Compatibility List (HSCL).

To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin role on the Management Server perspective.