HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

The concept of unmanaged arrays is included in SPM. Any pre-presented SAN volume can be
manually entered into the SPM interface, creating a catalog entry which can be matched against
a Storage Pool Entry to provide logical server storage suitable for use by Insight Orchestration. A
managed array enables SPM to perform certain storage operations such as gathering property
information, changing the hostmode, or performing LUN masking. Managed arrays can be used
for “Dynamic” SAN volume allocation automation. Unmanaged arrays do not support the automated
mechanism to change hostmode and LUN masking.
SPM supports two basic control paths for array management.
• SMI-S protocol
In Virtualization Manager, EVA arrays can be managed through SMI-S.
• Operations Orchestration
Can be used as a basic mechanism by which additional arrays can be integrated. This is
similar to the integration for heterogeneous servers described in the preceding sections.
When using SMIS-S to provide array management, you must supply the location of the SMI-S
provider through which the array is managed (for example, the Command View server):
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