Identifying the relationships between a storage system and other resources

In this scenario, you use a predefined relationships report to identify the relationships between a storage system and other servers or hypervisors. You can also use this scenario to identify the relationships between storage systems and NAS, pools, and volumes. Use this scenario to identify the relationships between storage virtualizers and servers, hypervisors, NAS, pools, and volumes.

About this task

You want to take a storage system offline and migrate the volumes to another storage system. To prepare for the migration, you first identify which servers or hypervisors are affected when the storage system goes offline.

Procedure

  1. Go to the URL for your Cognos Analytics server. The format of the URL is similar to this URL: http://myhostname:9300/bi
  2. In the Welcome portal, click Team Content.
  3. Click IBM Spectrum Control Predefined Reports.
  4. Click Storage Resource Relationships Summary.
  5. From the Storage systems list, select the storage system that you plan to take offline.
  6. Click Finish.

What to do next

View the output of the report to see which servers or hypervisors are affected when the storage system goes offline. You can now migrate the volumes.