Hi,
While I'm aware its possible to add an alias to WWPN via CLI, it is very frustrating and also a mgmt nightmare not being able to assign an Alias to individual initators via the System Manager GUI.
We are a heavily invested FCP customer, and the mgmt overhead tracking the WWPN initiators solely by their numbers, or being forced to use the CLI for such a routine administration task is a burden on resources.
I hereby request the following features be added to System Manager:
1. Ability to Add Alias to individual WWPN & IQNs in the System Manager GUI.
2. Ability to have the System Manager GUI display/discover, available / un-used WWPNs that have been zoned on the SAN fabric to see NetApp arrays. This would avoid extra requirement to cut & paste individual WWPNs from our SAN Switch Zoning config. into the System Manager 'Add Initiator' window.
3. Can the iGroups be made global between clustered FAS controllers. Or atleast have the ability to easily copy all the initators of an existing iGroup to another controller from withing the System Manager GUI?
This would avoid the clerical overhead in having to recreate the same iGroup entry multiple times across controllers?
All of the above are standard on HP EVA CommandView, and Brocade & HP SAN Switches (DCFM Console) which we also use in our environment.
While I am happy with many features & design of the current SystemManager 2.0 R1, I believe that the feature request above will go a long way to enhance the daily operational usability & mgmt within the GUI.
regards,