HP Storage Essentials

The industry award winning HP Storage Essentials SRM Software is the first unified, open, and standards-based suite of heterogeneous storage products designed to integrate with HP's unified infrastructure management platform, HP Systems Insight Manager. HP Storage Essentials SRM Suite helps mid-market to enterprise IT staff unify the management of their server and storage infrastructure, optimize the planning and execution of change and automate IT service and asset management.

The integrated portfolio of SRM management solutions increases staff efficiency, automates and simplifies tasks, and lowers SAN costs better than traditional mulit-tool manual methods. The comprehensive SRM software enables you to simply manage, discover and visualize infrastructure and storage resources, simplify manual tasks with policy-based automation, monitor all SAN resources, host clusters, dependency and path management, reporting, file scanning and analysis, integrated SAN and NAS, end-to-end capacity and performance management, monitor backup and business applications, and configure your multi-vendor storage environment through a single, Web-based enterprise console. HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software serves as the base management console for the suite. The software takes advantage of the latest in industry standards such as SMI-S, WBEM, WMI, JBoss and J2EE. This ensures our solution is extensible and will support the most demanding heterogeneous and multi-vendor IT environments.

The SRM Software provides auto-discovery of your entire IT infrastructure including hosts, HBAs, switches, servers and storage systems. In addition you can easily auto-discover popular business applications including Oracle database, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Sybase database and now InterSystems Cache' database. Built-in Advisors and Automators simplify time-consuming tasks such as managing worldwide names when replacing HBAs; identifying out of date switch and HBA firmware; and locating array volumes that can be reached by hosts that are running low on capacity. Over 150 pre-configured reports are available enabling the user to report on items such as assets, chargeback and file systems and utilization.

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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center can help you manage the capacity utilization of storage systems, file systems and databases and automate file-system capacity provisioning, perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface, tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the Storage Area Network (SAN) and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.

The IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center Suite is designed to:

Help centralize the management of your storage infrastructure from a single interface using role based administration and single sign-on
Provide a single management application with modular integrated components that are easy to install and provide common services for simple/consistent configuration and consistent operations across host, fabric and storage systems
Manage performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in depth performance monitoring and analysis on SAN fabric performance

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