Gain Full Control of Your Storage Assets
By providing a single console for managing today’s complex storage environments, Hitachi Device Manager unifies and simplifies storage management. It offers a centralized interface for automating storage management processes and tasks, giving you full control of your storage assets. Device Manager allows optimizing use of storage assets across all managed storage, consolidating storage management for Hitachi storage systems.
- Manage single or multiple Hitachi storage systems through an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and a complete command line interface (CLI).
- Improve IT productivity by leveraging highly efficient context-sensitive workflows and multiple management views, including physical, logical, host, NAS and virtual server.
- Organize and manage storage from a logical perspective, including provisioning and storage pooling for primary and secondary storage along lines of business and/or departments.
Manage Hitachi Storage Systems from a Single Console
- See how to use logical grouping in Hitachi Device Manager to delegate management tasks and track storage utilization. Watch or download the demo
Features
- Intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and a complete command line interface (CLI)
- Central management of single or multiple Hitachi storage systems
- Highly efficient, context-sensitive workflows
- Logical-, physical- and host-view storage management
- Provisioning and storage pooling control for primary and secondary storage
- Easy-to-use and consistent intuitive interface used throughout Hitachi Command Suite software products
- Agentless discovery and mapping of servers and storage
- Automation scripts through the CLI
- Highly scalable up to 5 million storage objects
- Multiple levels of security and access for storage administrators
- Capacity analysis and reporting based on multiple types of storage attributes
- Integration with Hitachi NAS Platform and Hitachi replication products, including Replication Manager, ShadowImage® Heterogeneous Replication, TrueCopy® Synchronous software, Universal Replicator and Copy-on-Write Snapshot
- Support for Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM® AIX®, VMware ESX and Linux hosts
- Secure remote management over Internet or wide area networks (WANs) through web browser access
- Enterprise management system access to Hitachi storage through SNMP and SMI-S support
Benefits
Business Agility
- Organizes and manages storage from a logical perspective, along lines of business or departments
- Provides an immediate view of available storage and current usage through consolidated control of storage
- Enables easy and rapid deployment of storage resources to meet business and application needs
Operational Excellence
- Improves IT productivity through consistent administrative operations across storage platforms
- Simplifies procedures linked to the configuration and management of storage
- Automates storage management processes
Risk Mitigation
- Facilitates the identification of storage system issues through proactive alerts
- Automates storage management processes and tasks
- Supports business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities by managing Hitachi storage system-based replication software
Reduced Costs and Overhead
- Enables more efficient use of storage assets through a continuously available view of storage across all managed storage systems
- Reduces time spent in storage operations and empowers existing resources to manage significantly more storage
- Decreases repetitive human intervention by automating key elements of storage management procedures
- Reduces training requirements and costs
- Consolidates storage management for Hitachi storage systems—including Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V and VM and Sun StorEdge 9990/9990V series systems
- Consolidates storage of internal and externally attached storage on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
