Administrator Guide

Storage Manager Features

Storage Manager provides the following features.

Storage Management Features

Storage Manager provides the following storage management features.

Storage Center Management

Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage multiple Storage Centers. For each Storage Center, you can configure volumes, snapshot

profiles, and storage profiles. You can also present configured storage to servers by defining server objects and mapping volumes to them.

Related concepts

Storage Center Administration

PS Group Management

Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your PS Groups. For each PS Group, you can configure volumes, snapshots, and

replications between a PS Group and Storage Center. You can also configure access policies to grant volume access to hosts.

FluidFS Cluster Management

Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your FluidFS clusters and monitor FluidFS cluster status and performance. A FluidFS

cluster is a scale-out NAS solution consisting of FS8600 NAS appliances, the Fluid File System (FluidFS), and Storage Center. FluidFS, a

scale-out file system, provides high performance, highly scalable, and efficient file storage for Windows, UNIX, and Linux clients. Combined

with Storage Center, FluidFS provides a unified block and file storage solution.

Servers

Storage Manager allows you to manage the storage that is allocated servers and provides Storage Center integration with Windows and

VMware servers.

There are two ways to manage servers in Storage Manager:

• Add the servers to a Storage Center

• Register Windows and VMware servers with the Storage Manager Data Collector.

Related concepts

Storage Center Server Administration

SMI-S

Storage Manager supports the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI‐S), a standard interface specification developed by the

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). SMI-S allows Storage Manager to interoperate with storage management software and

hardware from other vendors.

NOTE:

The Storage Manager Data Collector must be installed in a Microsoft Windows environment. SMI-S is not

supported on a Virtual Appliance.

Related concepts

SMI-S

VVols

Storage Manager supports the VMware virtual volumes (VVols) framework. VMware administrators use vCenter to create virtual

machines and VVols. You must be connected to a Data Collector Managerto use VVols.

When properly configured, you can use Storage Manager to manage and view VVols, storage containers, datastores, and other aspects of

VMware infrastructure.

Storage Manager Overview