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Centralized Storage Management and Reporting

Command Director

Centralized Management, Reporting for Command Suite

Hitachi Command Director

 

Hitachi Command Director

Hitachi Command Director


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  • Centralize business-oriented reporting across Hitachi Command Suite to ensure storage service levels for business applications are being met
  • Track storage system health and application performance with global storage management dashboard
  • Analyze key metrics across Hitachi Command Suite products to improve performance, capacity utilization and planning of Hitachi storage environments
Overview

Storage Service Levels for Critical Applications

Hitachi Command Director centralizes management and reporting across Hitachi Command Suite to provide the business intelligence you need to make informed storage management decisions. With business application views into the storage environment, you can easily align Hitachi storage systems with the applications and business functions that rely on them.

  • Monitor and analyze key performance and capacity indicators from various Hitachi Command Suite products
  • Configure and report on policies to facilitate application data migrations to the most cost-effective storage tier
  • Establish and proactively monitor application-specific service level objectives based on storage capacity, performance and tier requirements

Command Director complements Hitachi Command Suite by letting you streamline the management of your data storage infrastructure and gain new insights into how to optimize it.

  • Organize and view storage assets based on business applications and functions that rely on them
  • Monitor application compliance to storage service level requirements and policies
  • Analyze key metrics across the Hitachi Command Suite of products to improve performance, (and) capacity utilization and planning of Hitachi storage environments.

Streamline Data Infrastructure Management

Features and Benefits

Features

  • Provides business oriented application views of Hitachi data infrastructures to simplify application to storage reporting
  • Consolidates storage management, configuration, tier, capacity and performance statistics from Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager and Hitachi Tuning Manager
  • Defines and establishes service level objectives by business application and receives automated alerts when service level thresholds are exceeded
  • Establishes application-to-storage correlation without the use of host-based agents
  • Enables creation of custom management dashboards for monitoring application service levels and storage system health

Benefits

  • Easily align enterprise IT assets by viewing your Hitachi storage assets based on applications and their business functions
  • Increase utilization of enterprise IT assets with improved planning for future application needs based on historical trends
  • Report on mission-critical applications to ensure compliance with established service levels
  • Increase system reliability with early detection of problems by monitoring overall storage system health based on best practice rules

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