SPM adapter for EMC® Symmetrix® VMAX®: Matrix support for automation of EMC storage operations via the HP Storage Provisioning Manager

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• Select “EMC Symmetrix VMAX Storage Array” and click the “Next” button. If the EMC choice is not shown, refer to the
Troubleshooting section for possible issues and suggested actions.
• Provide the SMI-S credentials for the EMC Symmetrix VMAX array management server (host, port, and user may have
been specified in the adapter configuration file, but password is always required) and click the “Next” button shown in
Figure 4.
Figure 4: Provide Connection information
• SPM will now invoke the adapter which will discover the EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays, as shown in Figure 5:
Figure 5: Importing a discovered array
• Select the arrays to be imported from the list and click “Next”, “Next” and “Finish”. This will complete importing the arrays
into SPM catalog.
When the array import operation completes successfully, the Import Storage Pools Wizard can be opened to import storage
pools from the selected array. Select the array and click “Next” button as shown in Figure 6. SPM will again invoke the
adapter to get a list of storage pools which could be importedinto the catalog.