Hitachi Storage Services Manager software provides storage infrastructure management and storage resource management (SRM) across heterogeneous storage assets by auto-discovering hosts, switches, and disk subsystems while analyzing and visualizing their interdependencies. With accurate reporting of storage assets, application availability and quality of service is ensured while optimizing the utilization of storage resources.
Storage Services Manager software leverages the standards based SMI-S architecture to deliver end-to-end capacity management for leading enterprise applications and enables the management consolidation of a heterogeneous storage network under a common platform to reduce operational and capital costs.
Complementary Hitachi Storage Services Manager modules include:
Hitachi Chargeback provides powerful asset management and chargeback capabilities to accurately account the associated costs with the quality and quantity of storage utilized by different business units.
Hitachi Custom Reporter provides ad hoc querying and custom reporting capabilities for Storage Services Manager reports.
Hitachi Global Reporter provides aggregated reporting of multiple Storage Services Manager software servers for efficient management of enterprise-wide storage operations.
Hitachi Path Provisioning automates the repetitive, time consuming process of provisioning heterogeneous storage resources to support your business applications.
Hitachi QoS for File Servers seamlessly integrates traditional Storage Resource Management (SRM) file scanning and reporting capabilities.
Hitachi QoS for Microsoft Exchange
Hitachi QoS for Microsoft SQL Server
Hitachi QoS for Oracle
Hitachi QoS for Sybase
Hitachi QoS for InterSystems® Caché
These modules extend Storage Services Manager for Storage Resource Management and storage operations management capabilities "inside" your business applications to provide end-to-end storage capacity management.
Hitachi Storage Services Manager for NetApp extends the Storage Resource Management capabilities to all NetApp primary, nearline and gateway storage systems.
"The Hitachi Data Systems solution more or less convinced me right away. Of all the products we had looked at, Storage Services Manager software immediately impressed me as being the most modern and most suitable for our environment"
—Roman Graminger, Project Manager, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG
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