Hitachi 9900 manual View and Operate Networked Storage as a Holistic Resource

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Figure 26 – The HiCommand Management Framework is based on the CIM and SOAP industry standards.

common model with which all vendors can work. A CIM-enabled storage management environment will deliver significant benefits to customers, including the ability to:

1.Overcome the Challenges Created by De-coupling Storage Resources from Specific Server(s) in a SAN

Neither a single vendor solution nor individual point solutions can meet customers’

long-term comprehensive storage management and interoperability requirements. Customers need assurance that products deployed today can be expanded and enhanced to meet emerging interoperability requirements by adherence to open industry standards, such as CIM.

2.View and Operate Networked Storage as a Holistic Resource

CIM provides a common, normalized, yet extensible view of these resources, their

relationships, and the operations that can be performed against them.

By spanning the management of all components in the storage stack, from the application to the physical storage medium, CIM allows a management application to be as focused or all-encompassing as it needs to be, all within a single standard.

3.Avoid Being "Locked" into a Proprietary Management Environment

Storage management vendors supporting heterogeneous, interoperable environments

must differentiate their value based on products, services, and solutions, and not because their customers are locked into distinct management frameworks incompatible with other SAN elements. Customers who choose new and innovative companies that can create competitive or complementary functionality (built on existing management infrastructure and components based on the CIM standard) realize investment protection, greater choice, purchasing leverage, and additional options.

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