| Base Operating Security for VSP | Feature Description |
|---|---|
| Device Manager | Consolidates and rationalizes storage systems through virtualizing external storage into a single available poolHitachi Command Suite base software for configuration of individual Hitachi Unified Storage systems provides both a web-accessible graphical management interface and a command-line interface to allow ease of storage management. |
| Universal Volume Manager | Virtualizes external storage. |
| Partition Manager | Supports up to 4 cache partitions on VSP, or four cache or storage partitions on USP V and USP VM. |
| Dynamic Provisioning | Provides thin provisioning for simplified provisioning operations, automatic performance optimization and storage space savings (included only on VSP). |
| Dynamic Link Manager Advanced | Provides advanced SAN multipathing with centralized management (included only on VSP). |
| Storage Navigator | Version appropriate for the storage system included and used by Device Manager, shows individual physical storage system configuration and status information and sends administrative commands to the storage system. |
| Command control interface | Used for low level scripted control of storage system microcode functions such as replication. |
| Virtual Partition Manager | Enables the partitioning, up to 4 partitions, of cache on Virtual Storage Platform and ports, and of cache and disk (parity groups) on Universal Storage Platform family. |
| Performance monitor feature | Intuitive, graphical interface assists with performance management information in capacity and configuration planning, workload balancing, analyzing and optimizing storage system performance. |
| LUN manager and LUN expansion | Let administrators define, configure, add, delete, revise and reassign LUNs to specific paths without system rebooting. Its infrastructure supports alternative path failover, path load balancing and clustered servers. |
| Logical unit size expansion (LUSE) | Creates virtual expandable LUs out of physical groups. |
| Virtual LVI and LUN Manager, also called Customized Volume Size, | Let administrators create custom-sized logical volumes. It better utilizes physical capacity and boosts remote copy performance by eliminating the need to copy large volumes of partially used information. |
| Volume Port Security and Volume Security Port Option | Add LUN masking and host groups to secure SAN environments by denying access to unauthorized users at the port level. |
| Server Priority Manager | Allows customers to meet application performance SLAs by prioritizing server port access, assuring that critical applications are not adversely affected by non-critical applications. |
| Cache Residency Manager and Cache Management Host Agent | Allow users to "lock" and "unlock" data into cache in real time to optimize access to the most frequently accessed data. |
| Data Retention Utility for Open Systems and IBM® z/OS® | Disk-based "write once, read many" (WORM) capability. Archived data can be nonerasable and nonrewritable for prescribed periods, facilitating regulatory compliance. |
| Volume shredder | Erases sensitive data after the prescribed retention period. |
| SMI-S provider, SNMP agent and VSS support | Provides standards based integration with enterprise management systems. |
