Viewing a storage device

A storage device in BMC Discovery represents a storage chassis that has been discovered by a scan of its embedded WBEM/SMI-S provider.

To view a storage device

In the drop-down Search box, click Advanced Search.
The Advanced Search box is displayed in the main frame.
In the Infrastructure panel, select Storage Devices.
Click Search.
- If one storage device is found, its page is displayed.
- If multiple storage devices are found, they are listed. Click the one that you want to view.

The following screen illustrates a typical example of a discovered storage device.

The information fields for a discovered storage device are arranged in the following groups:

Field name	Details
Name	The name of the storage device; for example, netapp-san-00.internal.calbro.com
Vendor	The storage device vendor; for example, NetApp.
Model	The model name; for example, FAS2020.
Serial Number	The storage device serial number; for example, 2081692.
OS Class	The operating system class; for example, Embedded.
OS Type	The operating system type; for example, NetApp.
OS Version	The operating system version; for example, 7.3.3.
OS Vendor	The operating system vendor, for example NetApp.
Infrastructure	A link to and details of the storage system that this storage device is part of. The following details are provided: Name Type Storage Access Mechanisms Vendor Model Serial Number World Wide Node Name Number of Pools Number of Volumes Number of Disk Drives Number of FC Ports Number of File Systems