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

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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