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Custom Storage Tier Management

Tiered Storage Manager

Easy-to-use Interface for Managing Custom Storage Tiers

  • Allows IT administrators to easily and interactively match requirements for application quality of service (QoS) to heterogeneous storage assets
  • Moves data volumes to match application-driven price, performance and availability requirements to storage system characteristics
  • Works with Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® family and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform to move data nondisruptively through an easy-to-use interface
Overview

Match Application QoS to Storage System Attributes

Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software enables IT administrators to easily and interactively match application-driven price, performance and availability requirements to storage system characteristics. Employed with Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Tiered Storage Manager provides an easy-to-use interface for performing transparent, nondisruptive data volume movement across heterogeneous storage systems. Tiered Storage Manager software allows administrators to quickly provision storage to meet application deployment requirements and then fine-tune provisioning using multidimensional storage tiers.

  • Allows seamless transparent data volume movement among any storage systems attached to Virtual Storage Platform
  • Masks the underlying complexity of tiered storage data migration and does not require the administrator to master the operation of complex storage analysis
  • Manages and automates data movement based on a robust set of attributes, including cost, performance and
    data protection
  • Simplifies the task of optimizing storage infrastructure to satisfy application storage requirements
  • Allows fine-tuning and error correction of storage provisioning without application outages

Transparent, Nondisruptive Data Volume Movement

Features and Benefits

Features

  • Manages volume migration through the use of custom tiering or saved searches
  • Replaces storage system and storage semantics with higher-level application data, QoS metrics and storage tiers you can define
  • Enables performance optimization through integration with Hitachi Tuning Manager
  • Easily realigns application storage allocations
  • Manages volume locations relative to an application’s minimum requirements
  • Offers easy search operations to build migration groups and custom tiers
  • Shows a quick view of which storage is provisioned to specific applications through the use of saved searches
  • Allows an unlimited number of custom tiers and saved searches
  • Permits volumes to reside in multiple saved searches
  • Provides persistent volume classifications (migration groups)
  • Supports completely transparent volume movement without interruptions
  • Batches migrations together in a plan and lets them be manually released immediately or scheduled for a later time

Benefits

  • Offers easy-to-use volume migration based on service level
  • Safely moves data when application requirements increase or decrease
  • Lets you respond to business initiatives with faster storage provisioning
  • Easily fine-tunes volume provisioning via command line interface (CLI)
  • Removes complexity in managing storage tiers

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Specifications

Windows-based Management Server:

Hitachi Device Manager Server 6.0 or later must be installed on the same system.

  • Operating systems (non-cluster environment) supported:
    • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), Standard Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), Enterprise Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), Datacenter Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 (x64), Standard x64 Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 (x64), Enterprise x64 Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 (x64), Datacenter x64 Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Standard Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Enterprise Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Datacenter Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (x64), Standard x64 Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (x64), Enterprise x64 Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (x64), Datacenter x64 Edition
    • Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2) or later
    • Windows Vista x86 – Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions
  • Operating systems (cluster environment) supported:
    • Windows Server 2003, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter Editions (32 bit and x64)
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Enterprise Edition
  • Additional Cluster requirements:
    • Cluster software: Microsoft Cluster Server
    • Number of nodes: 2
    • Cluster configuration: Active-Standby configuration
    • Caution: On all nodes that make up a cluster, the disk configuration must be the same, and the installation folder for the Hitachi Device Manager software server must have the same name (including the drive letter and path name).
  • Server machine requirements:
    • Monitor: SVGA (800 x 600) or greater
    • CPU: minimum 1GHz (2GHz recommended)
    • Memory: 1GB (2GB recommended)
    • Disk capacity: 250MB (5GB recommended, more for larger sets of managed storage units)

Sun Solaris (SPARC edition)-based Management Server:

  • Operating systems (non-cluster environment) supported:
    • Solaris 8
  • Solaris 9
    • The following patch is required:
      • 118335-08
  • Solaris 10
    • Do not apply the following OS patches in a Solaris 10 environment:
      • SPARC : 127111-02 and 127111-03
      • x64 : 127112-02 and 127112-03
    • Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager server only works in an ordinary global environment (global zone). If you have created a zone (non-global zone), make sure that you install the Tiered Storage Manager server in the global zone.

    Operating systems (cluster environment) supported:

    • Solaris 9
    • VERITAS Cluster Server 4.0 or Sun Cluster 3.1

    Server machine requirements:

    • CPU: 1GHz (2GHz recommended)
    • Memory: 1GB (2GB recommended)
    • Disk capacity: 1GB (5GB recommended)

    Common Management Server requirements:

    • Hitachi Device Manager server software version 5.9 (or later)

    Requirements if mainframe storage integration is used:

    • Hitachi Device Manager Mainframe Agent 5.9 or later
    • Hitachi Device Manager server software version 5.5.0 (or later)

    Requirements if Hitachi Tuning Manager integration is used:

    • Hitachi Tuning Manager software 5.0.0 or later
      WARNING: Do not install Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software and Hitachi Tuning Manager software (“large database” setting) on the same management server
    • Hitachi Tuning Manager - Agent for RAID 4.0.0 or later

    Minimum System Requirements for the Management Client

    • Operating systems supported:
      • Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 3) or later
      • Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 3) or later
      • Windows 2000 Advanced Server (Service Pack 3) or later
      • Windows 2000 Datacenter Server (Service Pack 3) or later
      • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), Enterprise Edition
      • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), Datacenter Edition
      • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Standard Edition
      • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Enterprise Edition
      • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), Datacenter Edition
      • Windows XP Professional
      • Windows Vista (32-bit)
      • Solaris 8 (SPARC edition)
      • Solaris 9 (SPARC edition)
      • Solaris 10 (SPARC edition)
      • HP-UX 11i V1.0
      • HP-UX 11i V2.0
      • HP-UX 11i V3.0
    • Management Client requirements:
      • Internet Explorer version 6.0 for Windows
      • Internet Explorer version 6.0 (Service Pack 1) for Windows
      • Internet Explorer version 7.0 for Windows
      • Mozilla 1.4 for Solaris (SPARC edition)
      • Mozilla 1.7 for Solaris (SPARC edition)
      • Mozilla 1.7.8 for HP-UX
      • Mozilla 1.7.12.01 for HP-UX
      • Mozilla 1.7.13.01 for HP-UX
    • CLI Client requirements:
      • Windows environments:
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 Build 06 or later
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 5.0 Build 07 or later
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 Build 03-b02
          • Delivered with Device Manager
      • Solaris environments:
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 Build 06 or later
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 5.0 Build 07 or later
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 Build 03-b02
          • Delivered with Device Manager
      • HP-UX environments:
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 Build 08 or later
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 5.0 Build 03 or later
        • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 Build 03-b02
          • Delivered with Device Manager

    Storage Subsystems Applicable to Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software:

    • Domain Controllers:
      • Subsystem:
        • Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® V
        • Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
        • Hitachi Network Storage Controller model NSC55
    • External Storage Subsystems:
      • Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series enterprise storage systems
      • Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems
      • Hitachi Lightning 9900 enterprise storage systems
      • Hitachi Lightning 9900V enterprise storage systems
      • Hitachi Universal Storage Platform
      • Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
      • Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM
      • Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage
      • Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
      • In addition to the above storage subsystems, storage subsystems that are supported by Universal Storage Platform external storage connection can also be managed.

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