BVQ 6.2 new platforms

Brief description

We added support for some new platforms in BVQ 6.2:

• BVQ for IBM PowerVM
• BVQ for NetApp ONTAP
• BVQ for Dell EMC Unity
• BVQ for Brocade SAN (enhanced to gather information directly from the Switch API)
• BVQ Unified Storage Platform

For storage platforms we now differentiate the support level between In-depth and Basic.

• For In-depth supported platforms, the BVQ objective is to explore most of the platform features and internal structures, like storage copy functions, site awareness, caches, internal layers, ... .
• For Basic supported platforms, the BVQ objective is to show such systems in connection to other layers like SAN or Compute, or to support basic capacity and performance monitoring tasks.

To ease access to general information from multiple platforms, we consolidated basic objects and attributes to the BVQ Unified data model, which is also new in this version.

The following Table provides an overview across all platforms supported with this version:

Infrastructure layer	Platform	Support level	Unified model
Compute	VMware vSphere	In-depth
	IBM PowerVM	In-depth
Network	Brocade SAN (scanned via BNA)	In-depth
	Brocade SAN (scanned via Switch API)	In-depth
	Cisco SAN (scanned via DCNM)	In-depth
Storage	IBM Spectrum virtualize (SVC) IBM Storwize IBM Flash Systems	In-depth
	NetApp ONTAP	In-depth
	Dell EMC Unity	Basic
	BVQ Unified Storage Platform	Basic

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In general, the full BVQ functionality is enabled for each of the new Platforms. With that you are able to interactively explore your configuration and check it for issues, chart performance and error statistics, create reports about asset, configuration, capacity and performance utilization and drill through all the layers end to end from your Compute VMs through connected SAN infrastructure down to attached Storage systems.

Licensing

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