About monitoring and managing CVM clusters in InfoScale Operations Manager
Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) includes the Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) as a component. CVM expands the functionality of the Storage Foundation volume manager (VxVM) to add support for a clustered environment. CVM enables the cluster nodes to simultaneously access and manage a set of disks or LUNs under Storage Foundation control.
The Server perspective of the Management Server console lets you monitor information about CVM clusters and supports Storage Foundation (SF) operations on cluster objects such as disk groups, volumes, and disks.
Note: Operations on SF disk groups of the cluster-shared type and operations on volumes on such disk groups are not available on a Windows CVM cluster.
Similar views are provided in the InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API.
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Table: Monitoring and managing CVM clusters in the Server perspective
| Operation or view | Support in the Server perspective |
|---|---|
| View all CVM clusters | From the storage clusters node in the tree you can display a list of all CVM clusters. The table columns provide top-level information such as whether the cluster supports Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS). |
| Search for CVM clusters | The global search feature includes clusters as an object. You can create and save search queries based on cluster attributes. |
| View detailed information about objects in each cluster | You can view detailed information about objects in the cluster including\: |
| - Hosts | |
| - All disks of all hosts in the cluster | |
| - Disk groups | |
| - Volumes and file systems | |
| - Applications | |
| Use local or partially shared storage across all hosts in the cluster | In FSS-capable clusters and hosts, you can export or un-export disks from the disks view of the cluster. This operation is also available from the disks view of a host. |
| View the correlation of shared and exported storage across hosts in a cluster. | In the disks view of the cluster, you can group the information by disk to show which disks on different hosts are the same. For example, the view shows the exported disks and corresponding remote disks that are shared using the FSS export feature. |
| The disks view of a host shows similar information on a sub-tab. | |
| Create shared disk groups or perform disk group operations in a cluster. | You can create shared disk groups from either the storage clusters node in the tree, a selected cluster, or a selected cluster host. If the cluster supports FSS, you can enable FSS for the shared disk group and add exported disks. |
| All disk group operations that are supported from a host view are also available from the cluster view. | |
| Perform volume and file system operations in a cluster. | All volume and file system operations that are supported from a host view are also available from the cluster view. |
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