Managing external storage resources
In addition to the internal IBM® Flex System V7000 Storage Node storage, the IBM Flex System Manager management software is capable of managing several other storage systems and storage network devices.
Storage management with the management software involves two software components: Storage Manager and Storage Control. Both components are included with the management software. Storage Manager is a standard management software capability that provides basic storage lifecycle management (Discovery, Inventory, Health and Alerts). Storage Control is a preinstalled plug-in for the management software that expands storage support to mid-range and high-end storage devices. It is based on technology from Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center.
Flex System Enterprise Chassis and the management software offer many storage-management capabilities:
- Discovery of physical and virtual storage devices
- Support for virtual images on local storage across multiple chassis
- Inventory of physical storage configuration
- Health status and alerts
- Storage pool configuration
- Disk sparing and redundancy management
- Virtual volume management
- Support for virtual volume discovery, inventory, creation, modification, and deletion