BVQ uses data, collected by scanners from the connected systems.
The scanners are product-specific and managed in the BVQ°-Server in the scanner area.

Compute layer

VMware vSphere scanner

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

IBM PowerVM scanner

Select +PowerVM and fill out the mandatory fields
After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work

IBM AIX or Linux scanner

Select +AIX or +Linux and fill out the mandatory fields
Press Save&Exit to complete the scanner configuration
1. Note: Unlike other BVQ scanners, the AIX and Linux scanners are not actively scanning any systems but are waiting for them to send data. This means, a BVQ Agent for AIX or Linux needs to be installed on every partition that should be monitored by BVQ before any data is available for analysis

Network layer

Brocade SAN (REST) scanner

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

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

CISCO SAN scanner

Select +CISCO and fill out the mandatory fields
After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work

Storage layer

IBM Spectrum virtualize (SVC), Storwize & Flash systems scanner

Select +SVC and fill out the mandatory fields
After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work

NetApp ONTAP scanner

Select +Netapp and fill out the mandatory fields
After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work

Dell EMC Unity scanner

Select +EmcUnity and fill out the mandatory fields
After setting up the scanner, use the save button, to finish your work.