When you create and associate storage resources with an
application, you can monitor the capacity, space usage, and performance
of the application and its subcomponents.
About this task
To create the filter for the application, you must identify the storage resources that the
application uses.
In this scenario, you want to create an application that is called Book Sales DB. The Books Sales
DB application uses volumes with names that begin with bksales that are on a
Storwize
V7000 storage system.
To ensure that the filter does not retrieve storage resources that are on other
hosts or storage systems:
- You add the names of the volumes or a pattern that matches the names of the volumes.
- You add the name of the storage system or a pattern that matches the name of the storage
system.
Procedure
-
From the menu, click Applications.
- Click Create Application.
- Enter the information about the application that you want to create, and click
Create.
- On the Select a Method page, click Assign storage
resources to the application.
- On the Select a Resource Type page, click A selection of
volumes that match a pattern.
- Type the pattern that matches the names of the volumes that the application uses for
storage.
For example, to associate the volumes that the application for the Books
Sales DB uses, you type bksales_ws*.
- Click Belonging to and then click Storage
System.
- Type the name of the storage system or the pattern that matches the name of the storage
system.
- To check that the filter retrieves the correct storage resources, click
Preview.
If you want to change the filter, click
Close and make your changes.
- Click Save.
Important:
When you use a filter to add specific resources to an Application, those specific resources
appear as Members in the Application and only resources directly related to
the specific Members resources appear in the Application under Related
Resources. Resources that are not directly related to the specific Member resources do not
appear in the Application under Related Resources.
For example, when you use a filter to add specific volumes from a specific storage system to an
Application, only those volumes that match the filter appear as Members in the Application. Under
Related Resources for the Application, you will see only those resources
(storage system, pools, managed disks, RAID arrays, drives, etc.) that are directly related to the
specific volumes you added as Members to the Application. For example, if the storage system
associated with those specific volumes that you added to the Application via a filter contains other
volumes that did not match the filter, then those volumes will not appear as
Members or as Related Resources in the Application.
You would have to add those other volumes to the Application via a filter or you would have to add a
resource directly related to those other volumes to the Application via a filter.
Results
You can now view information about the capacity, space usage, and performance of the storage
resources on the Overview page for the application.