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Brief Introduction to Storage Discovery
Overview
The Storage discovery enables you to discover storage structures and connections between storage systems and remote servers.
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Storage structures
Universal Discovery discovers both physical and logic relationships between components in storage systems. Generally, the components include storage array, storage pool, Logical Unit Number (LUN), storage processor, logical volume, physical volume, fibre channel port, Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and file export.
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Connections between storage systems and remote servers
Universal Discovery discovers the following three types of connections: Network File System (NFS), iSCSI, and Storage Area Networks (SAN).
Supported Protocols
The Storage discovery uses the following protocols:
- NetApp protocol
- CIM protocol
Supported Discoveries
The Storage discovery includes the following discoveries:
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NetApp Filer discovery
The storage discovery via the NetApp protocol is the NetApp Filer discovery.
This discovery is based on NetApp Data ONTAP API (ONTAPI) that can be used to access and manage the storage system.
The discovery jobs are NetApp Filer Connection by WebServices and NetApp Filer by WebServices.
For details, see NetApp Filer Discovery.
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SMI-S discovery
The storage discovery via the CIM protocol is the SMI-S discovery.
This discovery is based on Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
The SMI-S discovery supports the following storage device brands:
- Brocade
- EMC
- Hitachi
- HPE
- Huawei
- IBM
- NetApp
The discovery jobs are Storage Devices Connection by CIM and Storage Devices Topology by CIM.
For details, see SMI-S Discovery.