Use this page to configure one or more storage
agents for those storage units that use storage agents.
The wizard provides this page only when you have a storage type for which you must configure a storage agent.
The information that you need to provide for each storage
agent varies based on the type of storage system to which the agent
corresponds.
Storage agents represent a physical or logical component that work as the interface to the application programming interface (API) of the corresponding storage management application. PowerHA® SystemMirror uses these APIs to manage the replication of the disks.
A storage agent uses a TCP/IP address for its communication with external software, such as PowerHA SystemMirror.
For more
information about replicated mirroring, see the Storage-based high availability and disaster recovery
for PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition topic in the AIX® Information Center.
The storage agent name represents a piece of hardware (or software) that is associated with a specific storage type. The storage agent uses a TCP/IP interface to interact with host systems for management and administration of the corresponding storage.