Operating Environment Software Owner's manual

SPM has the concept of unmanaged arrays. 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 the ability for
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. The first option uses the SMI-S protocol. In the
6.0 release of Virtualization Manager, EVA arrays can be managed through SMI-S. The second option
makes use of Operations Orchestration as a basic mechanism by which additional arrays can be integrated
similar to the integration for heterogeneous servers described in the sections above.
When using SMIS-S to provide array management, you must supply the location of the SMI-S provider, for
instance the Command View server, through which the array is managed:
36 Configuration