1. Prepare your system :VMware vSphere preparation
   Select +VMware and fill out the mandatory fields
   

   1. Do not forget to append "/sdk" to the URL

   2. Username has to be "user@vcenter"

   3. Do not forget to check the event scan if you like to see VMware event data in BVQ.

   4. Do not change the defaults unless there is an important reason to do so.

   5. You cannot access the SDK URL at https://servername/sdk
      The service at https://localhost/sdk is not an HTML webserver that can serve web pages. 
      
      

2. After setting up the VMware scanner, use the save button, to finish your work.

3.  The Storage Adapter Performance Scan scans all paths from each SCSI disk to SAN and will generate a lot of data.
   Switch this on, only when you need this data.
   This can also be switched for only some hours when you see the need to analyze round robin behavior of storage paths. 

1. Prepare your system : IBM PowerVM preparation
   Select +PowerVM and fill out the mandatory fields
   

2. do not change the defaults unless there is an important reason to do so.
   

   After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work.

Brocade REST interface is only available for Fabric O8.2.1 and higher. Visit Network layer for more information.

1. Select +Brocade and fill out the mandatory fields
   

   1. Do not change the defaults unless there is an important reason to do so.
      

   2. Select a Switch (or Director) in your SAN that has the highest firmware level and has the most performant hardware (Core directors preferred)
      and insert its address in the corresponding fields

   3. Insert the user credentials you prepared in Step 1

   4. Click "Update switches" below "Discovered switches" → this will take a while, please be patient
      BVQ will discover the IP addresses of all connected Switches and will ask every discovered Switch for additional connected Switches until no more Switches are found.
      All discovered Switches are Part of a (virtual) Fabric and all discovered Fabrics are part of a SAN, that is scanned completely by this BVQ Scanner instance.
      

   5. It is essential, that the principal switch of each fabric can be found in that discovery to identify all the Fabrics inside that SAN.

   6. Please review the list of discovered Switches for completeness

   7. It is recommended to have the same user credentials on all Switches. If that is not possible, you can change the user credentials of each Switch found in the first discovery. Please hit "Update Switches" again after that, if the list of Switches is not complete as expected.
      

2. After setting up this Scanner hit the "Save configuration" button to finish your work.

1. Prepare your system : Cisco SAN preparation
           a.   Select Select  +CISCO and fill out the mandatory fields
   

2. do not change the defaults unless there is an important reason to do so.
   

3. After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work.

1. Prepare your system : IBM Spectrum virtualize (SVC), Storwize & Flash systems preparation
      a.   Select Select +SVC and fill out the mandatory fields Do not change the defaults unless there is an important reason to do so.
   

2.     b.   After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work.