Fabric Manager Tutorial

Fabric Manager

Fabric Manager simplifies administration of large fabrics, and centralizes management and control of storage networks.

Its primary benefits include:

• Scalable performance, through server federation and VSAN scoping, for fabric discovery across multiple data centers
• Wizard-based fabric provisioning: verify changes before execution and reduce chances for human error
• Historic performance trending: identify less-busy times for maintenance and forecast future demand
• Real-time event forwarding for proactive storage network management and reduced response time
• End-to-end topology mapping, along with path performance, for quicker root-cause analysis

After installation, access the Fabric Manager:

Authentication:

Active Directory or work groups

Switch Authentication

Once it's connected discover the storage networks in your environment.

Using IP Subnet.

Once it discovered, add this to the storage group.

Once it is added to the switch group, now you can view details about your switch.

You can check the topology and click what are the devices are connected?

To view the switch information:

To view the devices information:

To view the port information:

To view all ports information.

Switch Menu:

Connect via Telnet:
Login to switch and execute the commands.

Switch status:

Switch Menu.

Advance configuration Menus:

Firmware Management:

Health Status:

To view the events:

Entire switch Information :

Using this you can manage the zoning, Switch Admin and All configuration.