Hitachi Storage Services Manager Software

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Heterogeneous Storage Resource Management (SRM) - Hitachi Data Systems

Storage Services Manager

Heterogeneous Storage Resource Management

  • Consolidates management of heterogeneous storage assets utilizing a standards based SMI-S framework
  • Allows storage administrators to visualize and analyze interdependencies of applications, hosts, switches and disk subsystems
  • Offers several complementary modules for business application integration, custom reporting, chargeback, file servers and network attached storage
Overview

SMI-S Heterogeneous Storage Resource Management

Hitachi Storage Services Manager software provides storage resource management (SRM) across heterogeneous storage assets. It auto-discovers hosts, switches and disk subsystems while analyzing and visualizing their interdependencies. This ensures application availability and quality of service while optimizing use of multi-vendor storage resources.

Storage Services Manager leverages the standards-based SMI-S architecture to deliver end-to-end capacity management for leading enterprise applications. It reduces costs by enabling the management of a heterogeneous storage network under a common framework.

Storage Services Manager includes many complementary modules:

  • Chargeback
  • Custom Reporter
  • Global Reporter
  • Path Provisioning
  • QoS for File Servers
  • QoS for Microsoft® Exchange
  • QoS for Microsoft® SQL Server®
  • QoS for Orace
  • QoS for Sybase
  • Storage Services Manager for NetApp

Top Features and Benefits

  • Enables unified storage resource management for heterogeneous storage environments utilizing SMI-S industry standards for common discovery, monitoring, reporting and management
  • Provides centralized framework for heterogeneous SRM operations
  • Tracks and reports storage capacity to optimize storage utilization
  • Provides network topology rendering to visualize and analyze the interdependencies of storage components
  • Enables common event management
  • Includes broad support for SMI-S compatible storage resources
  • Offers advanced management functions consisting of chargeback, reporting on file server storage and network attached storage

Features and Benefits

Features

  • Centralizes administration and operation for a heterogeneous storage environment under a common management application
  • Automates discovery and visualization of storage infrastructure and network topology
  • Analyzes all path interdependencies between host servers and storage systems
  • Tracks heterogeneous storage capacity usage so available capacity can be moved to where it is needed most
  • Integrates with leading enterprise applications to accurately measure storage usage by application when used with host-based agents
  • Offers modular design for easy integration with advanced storage functions, such as chargeback and storage resource management of file systems

Benefits

  • Saves both costs and IT resources required to manage multivendor storage networks
  • Simplifies heterogeneous storage administration by utilizing a common standards based management platform
  • Ensures storage availability for mission-critical business applications
  • Identifies underutilized capacity to defer additional storage investments
  • Accelerates the deployment of advanced storage functionality without adding administration complexity

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