Storwize V7000 Unified

Add Storwize V7000 Unified storage systems to collect capacity, configuration, status, and performance metadata for block storage and capacity, configuration, and status metadata for file storage. Use the metadata to help detect performance issues, see changes in storage usage, and plan for future storage needs.

Tip: To monitor the performance of a Storwize V7000 Unified storage system, you must add it as a block storage system.

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Use the following information to add the storage system so that it can be monitored and that metadata can be collected, analyzed, and presented in the GUI.

Host names or IP addresses: The host names or IP addresses that are used to connect to the storage systems. Use host names if your IP addresses change regularly. Depending on what is supported in your environment, you can enter an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) or IPv6 address. If you enter an IPv6 address, the preferred representation is written as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits. Example: 2001:DB95:0000:1234:0000:0000:5678:ABCD.
Authentication: The user name and password or the private Secure Shell (SSH) key that is used to connect to the storage system.
User name and Password: The user must have Administrator privileges for the storage system so that the metadata that is analyzed and presented in the GUI can be collected.

Authenticate with SSH key

When you upload the SSH key, you must add the SSH user that was associated with the SSH key when the SSH key was created.

SSH key: Upload the new SSH private key that was generated to authenticate with the storage system. The valid file formats for SSH keys are PEM and PuTTY. If the key is in another format such as OpenSSH, it must be converted to PEM or PuTTY before it can be used.; Restriction: PuTTY Private Key version 3 files are not supported. If you use PuTTYgen 0.75 or later to generate keys, ensure that you choose the option to generate version 2 keys. In PuTTYgen, click 2 for PPK file version on the Private Key File Parameters window before you generate the key.; For more information about PuTTYgen, see https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html.
Passphrase: The passphrase that is associated with the SSH key pair. If a passphrase was not created for the SSH key pair, leave the field blank. For SSH keys that use the PuTTY file format, you cannot use a passphrase to protect the private key.
SSH User: The user that was associated with the SSH key when it was created must have an Administrator role so that the metadata that is analyzed and presented in the GUI can be collected.
Tip: If you use different credentials to connect to and collect metadata for file storage, the user must have Administrator role privileges for block metadata and Monitor role privileges for file metadata.

When the storage system is added, asset, capacity, and configuration metadata for block storage and file storage, and performance metadata for block storage is collected, analyzed and presented in the GUI.