| Q1. |
What fabric switches does HP Provisioning Manager support? |
| A1. |
Today, HP Provisioning Manager supports the Brocade SilkwormTM family of Directors
and Fabric Switches, the EMC ConnectrixTM family of Directors and Fabric Switches, and the McDATA IntrepidTM
family of Directors and SphereonTM family of Fabric Switches. As vendors such as Cisco and QLogic add the
ability to provision their devices through SMI-S interfaces or vendor APIs, their devices will also be supported. |
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| Q2. |
What zoning operations does HP Provisioning Manager support? |
| A2. |
The path provisioning, wizard-based, and in-context provisioning interfaces included with HP Provisioning
Manager all support the ability to:
- create, edit, and delete zones, zone sets, and zone aliases
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| Q3. |
What storage systems does HP Provisioning Manager support? |
| A3. |
Yes. HP File System Viewer scans NAS volumes from all supported host operating
systems to provide logical NAS capacity and user consumption management. For comprehensive physical NetApp
capacity, performance, and health management, HP offers HP File System Viewer. Together, the tightly
integrated plug-ins offer complete topology, dependency, capacity, performance, event, and consumption
management for NetApp filers. |
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| Q4. |
What storage system provisioning operations does HP Provisioning Manager support? |
| A4. |
The path provisioning, wizard-based, and in-context provisioning interfaces included with
HP Provisioning Manager all support the ability to:
- create and delete pools (for mid-range storage systems that do not have pools pre-allocated)
- create and delete volumes
- create LUNs
- mask LUNs
- create and delete host security groups (for storage systems such as the Hitachi LightningTM and
TagmaStoreTM that feature the ability to virtualize and logically group physical storage ports so that
they can be shared by multiple hosts and different operating systems)
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