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All models coexist in BVQ. The Unified model coexists in parallel to the platform specific models and we still kept the specific models to be as exact and near to the platform vendor models as possible. With that we can always support any platform specific feature in BVQ without a need to extend or change the Unified model. In addition a specific model is much more intuitive to understand for a experienced platform expert. The general model is much smaller, simpler and easier to understand for general management purposes. These are major benefits of BVQ in the market, compared to solutions, that desperately try to bring everything under the hat of a single general model.
Status Experimental
This is the firs version of the BVQ Unifed Storage Platform that ever hits a customer. We are sure many new ideas will flow into that model soon. Due to that, we currently rate its status as "Experimental". Our objective is to add an additional unified model for SAN and to add more attributes an object types to the Unified Storage Model in near future.
Unified Model object relations
The first BVQ Unified model released with this BVQ version consists of nine general object types which are linked to specific object types of the following platform specific data models:
Unified Model objekt linking
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| Remote platform | Remote object | General model object |
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| IBM PowerVM | System / VIOS PV | Block Storage Volume |
| VMware vSphere | SCSI volume | Block Storage Volume |
| Brocade / Cisco SAN | Node port | Storage Node SAN port Storage Host port |
| Brocade / Cisco SAN | Zone Member | Storage Node SAN port Storage Host port |
BVQ Unified Storage Platform usage in BVQ
The object types of the BVQ Unified Storage Platform can be used as any other object types by all applications BVQ offers: Alerting, reporting, Grafana dashboards, REST interface and for sure in the Expert GUI App.
BVQ Expert GUI representation
All objects, attributes and statistics of this platform model can be interactively browsed within the BVQ Expert GUI as you are used to.
Where to find Unified Storage Model objects?
Similar to all other objects, they show up in the Path browser inside the property panel of the BVQ Expert GUI.
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. Their attributes can also be chosen in the normal way, via the properties panel.
| Unified Storage Model objects in Path browser | Dell EMC Unity Performance overview |
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Object attributes
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Performance and error statistics
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| Open Performance view for a Volume | Choose Volume performance metrics |
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