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Managing Virtual Storage Servers

CA SRM adds support for collecting and reporting data from IBM VSS Storage Virtualization appliance. The IBM Storage Volume Controller (SVC) data collection agent is responsible for collecting high level information like Clusters, Nodes, MDisk groups, MDisks, VDisks and so on from IBM VSS installed node by communicating to SMI-S provider configured on any platform which will reside on the managed server machine.

CA SRM helps the storage administrators to understand better the relationship between physical and virtual storage, the storage allocations between the virtualization appliance and the servers that uses the storage.

CA SRM provides a licensed option that pools storage usage data from the following virtual storage server objects:

This section contains the following topics:

Virtual Storage Environment Objects

Registering Virtual Storage Environment

Defining a Query Service

Defining an Automate Service