Centralized Storage Management and Reporting

Command Director

Centralized Management Reporting for Command Suite

Hitachi Command Director Software

Ensure Application Storage Service Levels

Ensure service levels for critical applications.

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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
Monitor key capacity and performance metrics across all Hitachi storage systems, whether data is block, file, or unified to improve performance, capacity utilization and planning of Hitachi storage environments

Overview

Service Level Management 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.

Top Features and Benefits

Monitor and analyze key performance and capacity indicators from various Hitachi Command Suite products
Efficient service level monitoring and troubleshooting for Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Hitachi Unified Storage Platform
Establish application-specific service level objectives based on storage capacity, performance and tier requirements
iPad app delivers new levels of mobile access to storage management dashboards

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 Hitachi Command Suite products to improve performance, 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
Provides consolidated storage performance monitoring with block and file based I/O performance trends, storage port performance correlation and identify the busiest Hitachi Unified Storage Platform file nodes

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
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
Lower overall operating costs with centralized monitoring of the storage infrastructure

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