The VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for IBM SVC and Storwize is an embedded adapter for VMware Aria Operations, collecting performance, health, and availability data from your IBM SVC or Storwize system and providing predictive analytics and real-time monitoring information—all within the VMware Aria Operations user interface.

Notable Features

The Management Pack for IBM SVC and Storwize provides the following notable features:

  • 5 comprehensive monitoring dashboards:

    • IBM SVC Overview – Monitor the health of your entire IBM SVC or Storwize environment with at-a-glance status indicators, alerts, and KPIs

    • IBM SVC Health Investigation – Quickly troubleshoot alerts for any resource in your IBM SVC or Storwize environment

    • IBM SVC Status & Alerts – View alerts and KPIs from your Cluster down to your Nodes

    • Oversubscription – View the KPIs of your Storage Pool, Virtual Disk, and related Datastore

    • VMWare Compute Clusters on IBM SVC – Get a view all the way down from Compute Clusters to your Virtual disks and their KPIs

  • Over 200 collected metrics passed in from IBM SVC or Storwize resources

  • Detailed alerts and notifications inform you when almost 3000 critical to informational events occur

  • External VMware Host to SVC Virtual Disk Relationship – View the underlying SVC or Storwize infrastructure as it relates to your VMware Hosts

How the Management Pack Works

The Management Pack for IBM SVC and Storwize connects to the IBM Spectrum Virtualize for SAN Volume Controller and Storwize® Family CLI to import SVC or Storewize resources, relationships, metrics, and alerts into VMware Aria Operations, enabling comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting, while providing visibility into the virtual layer within VMware Aria Operations.

Getting Started

Wondering where to start? See System Requirements for details.