Registering Virtual Storage Environment

To register a virtual storage environment with CA SRM, perform the following steps:

Set up the application host.
An Application Host is the host where the SMI-S provider software is installed and configured for the IBM Storage Virtualizer. You can have the in-built SMI-S provider on certain storage virtualizers.

However, for some of the storage virtualizers, you must install and configure the SMI-S provider software explicitly.

Note: For more information about installing and configuring the software (SMI-S Provider) application host, see the vendor documentation that is provided with your storage virtualizer.
Set up the proxy collector computers.
The application host is the computer that controls the virtual storage server. The proxy collector is the computer through which CA SRM performs data collection on the host server. Typically, the application host and the proxy collector reside on the same computer, but they can reside on two separate computers. Typically, the application host and proxy collector computers have different requirements. And this proxy collector has to be registered as a managed computer in CA SRM for that to be listed in the SVC proxy collector list.
Register the virtual storage server using the CA SRM Virtual Storage Registration Wizard.