Hitachi

Add Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) F and G Series storage systems to get performance, asset, capacity, and configuration metadata analyzed for block storage so that you can detect performance issues, changes in storage usage, and plan for future storage needs.

You can add a VSP system by connecting to the Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Ops that is managing the device. By default, the asset, capacity, and configuration metadata that is collected from storage systems is refreshed every 24 hours. Performance metadata is collected at a default collection interval of 5 minutes.

Use the following information to add VSP storage systems so that they can be monitored and their metadata can be collected, analyzed, and presented in the GUI. Add a VSP storage system by connecting to the Hitachi Command Suite that manages the device. Connect to the Hitachi Device Manager to enable the Export Tool to collect performance information from the storage system.

Supported versions: To view the versions of Hitachi VSP storage systems that are supported in IBM Storage Insights, go to the Hitachi support page.

Restriction: If the only available IBM Storage Insights data collector is installed on AIX®, then you can only monitor devices managed by Hitachi Ops center and can not monitor the devices managed by Hitachi command suite.

Hitachi Ops Center

Hitachi Ops Center is the preferred method to add or monitor the Hitachi devices.

IBM Storage Insights monitors capacity and configuration information about Hitachi devices by using the Hitachi Ops Center. Provide the connection information for the Hitachi Ops Center installation that is monitoring the devices.

Ops Center Administrator section has the following fields:
- Host name or IP address: The host name or IP address for Ops Center Administrator detail view, for example, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) or IPv6 address.
- Port Number: The port number for Ops Center Administrator for Hitachi Ops center.
- User name: The user name that is required to connect to Hitachi Ops Center.
- Password: The password that is required to connect to Hitachi Ops Center.
Ops Center Analyser Detail View section has the following fields:
Note: The fields in Ops Center Analyser Detail View section gets enabled on selecting the Enable performance monitoring check box.
- Host name or IP address: The host name or IP address for Ops Center Analyser detail view to enable performance monitoring, for example, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) or IPv6 address.
- Port Number: The port number for Ops Center Analyser to enable performance monitoring for Hitachi Ops center.
- API key: API key to enable performance monitoring for Hitachi Ops Center.
  Tip: To update any field, go to Resources > Block Storage Systems, right-click the storage system, and then click Connections > Modify Connection.
  
  To generate the API key, follow the steps below:
  1. Open the Hitachi Ops Center inventory URL.
  2. Enter the username and password.
    Note: Contact IBM support to get the Hitachi Ops Center inventory URL, username, and password.
  3. Select Ops Center Analyser product.
  4. Click the Main icon in top-right and select Ops Center Analyser Detail View option.
  5. Navigate to Manage > Authentication token.
    It displays the API key in a pop-up window.

Complete the following steps to add your Hitachi VSP storage systems for monitoring.

Add Hitachi VSP F and G Series by connecting to Hitachi Command Suite. See Credentials for Hitachi Command Suite.
Install the Hitachi Export Tool to collect performance information and export it from your storage system. See Installing the Hitachi Export Tool.
To enable or disable performance monitoring, see Enabling and disabling the collection of performance metadata for Hitachi VSP storage systems.

Add Hitachi VSP F and G Series

When you select Hitachi VSP, you can add one or more storage systems by entering the connection information for the Hitachi Command Suite that is managing those devices.

Important: To discover and monitor Hitachi VSP F and G Series storage systems, you must provide a user name for connecting to the associated Hitachi Command Suite. This user name must be assigned to the View Group user group and have AdminGroup permission in the Hitachi Command Suite.

Credentials for Hitachi Command Suite

IBM Storage Insights monitors capacity and configuration information about Hitachi devices by using the Hitachi Command Suite. Provide the connection information for the Hitachi Command Suite installation that is monitoring the devices.

Host name or IP address: The host name or IP address that you use to connect to Hitachi Command Suite. 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.
User Name and Password: The account credentials that are required to connect to Hitachi Command Suite. The role or user group that is assigned to the user name must have the appropriate privileges to monitor the data that is collected and, if required, to change the frequency of the data collection schedules. Learn more about the role requirements for the user name.

Performance

Enable performance monitoring

When you enable performance monitoring in IBM Storage Insights, the user name and password that you provided to connect to the Hitachi Command Suite are also used to connect to Hitachi Device Manager. Hitachi Device Manager provides the connection information for the storage system to the Export Tool, which then sends the performance information to IBM Storage Insights.

Requirement: You might already have created credentials for Hitachi Device Manager, but you must create new credentials to match the credentials used for Command Suite. Device Manager uses these credentials exclusively for the Export Tool.

Important: To collect performance metadata, Hitachi requires that the password for connecting to the storage system be temporarily stored as clear text in a file on the server where the data collector is installed. For security reasons, ensure access to that server is restricted to key personnel. The file is automatically deleted after metadata is collected.

Capacity

Asset, capacity, and configuration metadata is collected by probes. By default, a probe collects metadata from Hitachi VSP systems once every 24 hours.