HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 28)

Operations available to SMI-S Enabled storage systems
You can register storage systems that are managed by an SMI-S provider (SMI-S Enabled storage
systems) as HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite resources.
The user can perform the following operations to SMI-S Enabled storage systems:
• Register, change, delete, and update SMI-S Enabled storage systems.
• View summary information for SMI-S Enabled storage systems.
• Operate SMI-S Enabled storage systems from the SMI-S Enabled storage system management tool
(activate the management tool from Element Manager).
• Connect or disconnect as external storage systems (by executing CLIs).
Users must be assigned All Resources to reference or perform operations on SMI-S Enabled storage
systems.
For the operations that are executed by CLI, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software CLI Reference Guide.
Registering hosts
This module describes how to register hosts.
About registering and removing a host
You can register hosts as managed resources using Device Manager so that storage system volumes
can be used by the hosts and their applications.
The following hosts can be registered for Command View AE Suite:
• Normal hosts (An open host that is not virtualized)
• Virtualization servers (A physical server where virtualization software is installed)
• Virtual machines (A machine that is created on the virtualization server and operates on virtualiz-
ation software)
Depending on the user's purpose, multiple methods are provided for registering one or more hosts,
including manual registration, Host Data Collector (agent-less discovery) or Device Manager agent.
For host prerequisites and environment settings, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software Administrator Guide.
You can also monitor the usage status of storage resources from the host point of view, such as
generating reports for charging each host that meets its actual capacity.
If hosts no longer have to be managed, for example because of reorganization, remove the registered
hosts. Configuration information, such as LUN paths set during volume allocation, are retained on
the storage systems, but because the host is excluded from management by Command View AE Suite,
information about deleted hosts is deleted from the logical groups that are set in Command View AE
Suite.
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