Step 4 Adding your Storage in Hitachi Ops Center

Lets add your Storage Array to the various products. For this you'll need your array login details. If you dont know what this is you can lookup the default credentials via the QR Code at the back of your storage array. Login to your deployed Ops Center instance by accessing:
https://<DNS or IP>/portal.

Administrator

Onboarding your Storage

Click on the Administrator product in Ops Center. Next up select 'Storage Systems' on the left and then the '+'. Specify your SVP/ESM or Controller IP along with Username and Password to onboard your storage array.

Give it a couple of minutes to register your array. If you have any hosts created on the embedded UI, these will automatically be pulled into Ops Center Administrator.

Discovering existing hosts that might exist

However, if you managed this array with another instance or product, you can import the server by doing a host scan, by going to 'Servers' and then selecting the 'Eye'-icon top right of the screen to import existing host groups on the array

Connecting Administrator to Protector

Lets configure the connection to protector to enable GAD creation in Ops Center Administrator. You'll need:

IP of the Ops Center VM, the one in the url bar by default
The port for Protector, default it shows 443, but the default on Ops Center OVA is 20964
Username of the local machine - usually root@master
The password you set after your first login before your ran the opsvmsetup command.

After this you can click 'Test Connection' to validate if the values entered works.

Automator

Let's quickly add our CMRest server that got deployed with Ops Center so we can use this in our other products like Analyzer and Protector.

Adding your Configuration Manager instance in Automator:

If you navigate to Automator, then Administration inside the product. You can select the 'Web Service Connections' and add a "Configuraiton Manager" service under the Category section. You should also supply:

Name - Can be anything you want to call this instance
IP/Hostname - You can copy the hostname in the url bar
Protocol - Can be http or https
Port - 23450 for http or 23451 for https
Username to login to the storage array like for instance maintenance
Password to login to the storage array

The username and password above doesn't have anything to do with Ops Center. These are local username/passwords for the storage arrays.

Adding your storage array to Configuration Manager

Next we can add our array to the Configuration Manager rest service. By selecting "Configuration Manager Settings", you can select the name of the instance you added and then selecting 'Register'. Next you can:

Model
Serial No of the unit
IP or access details to the system

Analyzer

For now, we'll just link Ops Center Analyzer with Detailed view. For an indepth guide to setup your storage array in Ops Center Analyzer take a look at our Probe Quick Setup Guide.

Protector

For now, we'll link our storage array with our Ops Center Install. In a production environment you'll most likely use the Probe Server at the local site, instead of your Ops Center Server itself. To setup your ISM (Intelligent Storage Machine) probe check out our Probe Quick Setup Guide.

If you click into Analyzer, head over to 'Administration' and select the '+'

You can select a Storage Node Type and then a Hitachi block Device

You can then specify a name, select a proxy node on the next step. This can be a probe server or the Ops Center server depending on your setup.

For the Meta data directory you can specify /data or /home typically.

When specifying the device you can use an IP command device and point it to an controller or SVP

If you're connecting an B20 Array. You might need to point it to one of the controllers as opposed to the ESM IP.

On the credentials for the device. You should specify a username and password thats compatible with raidcom.

You can specify your CMRest server that was setup in the Automator section. Using a local username and password.

Once youre happy with all the configuration parameters you can finalize the Storage Node addition by hitting Finish.