Add a storage system

You add a storage system to bring it under management of the appliance by providing its IP address or host name, along with its credentials. After you add the storage system, you can add networks and assign those networks to a storage array target port.

Prerequisites

Minimum required session ID privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Storage administrator.
The storage system IP address or host name.
The storage system user name and password with root access.
The storage system is up and running and WSAPI service is enabled. See the documentation for HPE StoreServ 3PAR Storage systems for more information.
The storage system is configured with domains and pools.

Adding a storage system using REST APIs

Select the Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel over Ethernet network URIs.

GET /rest/fc-networks

OR

GET /rest/fcoe-networks
Add the storage system under appliance management and discover the storage array target ports.

POST /rest/storage-systems
Specify the unmanagedPorts in the managedPorts collection and the expectedNetworkUri.

PUT /rest/storage-systems/{id}

NOTE: If you do not want to add networks at this time, set the expectedNetworkUri attribute to empty string"". You can add the networks later using a PUT operation.

After you add the storage system, you can Add a storage pool and Create a storage volume.

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