As a component of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Basic Edition is designed to help you improve your storage TCO and ROI by:
- Combining the assets, capacity, performance and operational management, traditionally offered by separate Storage Resource Management, SAN Management and Device Management applications into a single platform
- Monitoring and track the performance of SAN attached SMI-S compliant storage devices
- Managing the capacity utilization and availability of file systems, databases, storage, and IBM TotalStorage 3584 Family of tape libraries
- Monitoring, manage and control (zone) SAN fabric components
- Assisting customers in support of data classification, ILM assessments and ITIL storage practices around service support
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition consists of:
Improve Storage Infrastructure Management and Service Levels
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition provides all the management capabilities to better manage your heterogeneous storage infrastructure from application to back-end storage system disk at a single bundled price. With Productivity Center Standard Edition you can centralize the management of your storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on. This also provides a single management application with modular integrated components that easy to install, configure and operate.
Productivity Center Standard Edition additionally can manage performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in-depth performance monitoring and analysis on SAN fabric performance. This provides customer an central storage management application to monitor, plan, configure, report and do problem determination on heterogeneous storage infrastructure.
Details about integration and interoperability, including device support, database support, server hardware requirements, and O/S platform support can be found on the "Install/use" tab in Product support. Other technical resources such as troubleshooting, downloads, and planning information can also be found in the Product support section.
Details about device support, database support, server hardware requirements, O/S platform support, and other technical resources can be found in Product support.
Features, advantages and benefits| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
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| Device Discovery/ Configuration
| Can provide complete Storage and SAN inventory
| Provides necessary input for performance, capacity & asset management
| | Topology Viewer
| Provides a linked graphical & detailed view of overall configuration
| Users easily see storage configuration and can easily drill down into servers, switches & storage devices for more detailed info
| | Storage Health Management
| Via the topology viewer, TPC provides a graphical storage health overlay function
| Users easily spot problem areas via color coding with Health overlay
| | Launch of Device Element Managers
| Launches individual storage hardware element managers from its GUI
| Links directly to management software for devices not managed by TPC
| | Basic Asset & Capacity Reporting
| Simple storage & SAN asset reports
| Gives user an overview of assets
| | Easily upgraded to Standard Edition
| Simple software key to upgrade to TPC Standard Edition
| User is able to easily upgrade to get added value
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