| Discovery |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Inventory collection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Monitoring (alerts and status) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes7 |
| Server-to-storage mapping1 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Physical topology |
Yes2 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Logical topology |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Streamlined storage-to-server provisioning |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| VMControl provisioning3 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| NPIV support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes4 |
| Monitor virtualized storage capacity5 |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
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| IBM Flex
System Manager Chassis
Map6 |
Yes |
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Yes (PureFlex® only) |
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| IBM Flex
System Manager-based
updating |
Yes |
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| IBM Flex
System Manager-based
problem reporting to IBM |
Yes |
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- Applies only to compute nodes running AIX®, KVM, RHEL, and VMWare ESX.
- Physical network topology only.
- Applies to PowerVM® and
KVM hosts when deploying a new virtual appliance that involves allocating
a new storage volume from the storage device. This requires NPIV,
although NPIV for IBM i-hosted
workload is not supported.
- In IBM Flex System Manager® versions 1.2.0 and later, VMControl provides limited
support for IBM XIV storage that is connected through the NPIV
protocol to Power Systems™ compute
nodes. NPIV support is provided for AIX and IBM i operating systems, but the
necessary MPIO device drivers and host attachment kits that are needed
to support NPIV must be installed on the client virtual servers.
Important: VMControl cannot remove host definitions for
virtual servers on the XIV storage
system. When you deprovision NPIV-attached storage volumes, you must
delete associated host definitions on the XIV storage system, either manually or by using
a script to periodically delete unused host definitions. If you do
not delete unused host definitions, VMControl storage provisioning
might fail because there are not enough available host definitions
on the XIV storage system.
- Ability to view and monitor capacity of IBM or non-IBM storage that is virtualized behind
a V7000 array or the IBM SAN
Volume Controller.
- Flex System V7000 storage
nodes, which are installed in IBM Flex System® chassis, are discovered
and displayed automatically by the management software.
Storage systems that are external to the chassis are not.
- IBM XIV Storage System disk failure alerts are not
shown in the IBM Flex
System Manager management software.
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