Hitachi 9900 manual Product Support, Out-of-band Management

The HiCommand Management Framework and Hitachi Resource Manager System Management Software

Overview of How the Systems Management Software Supports Business Objectives

To be successful in today’s business environment, companies must attain the highest levels of business agility, with maximum IT system efficiency and performance. The “storage-centric” model of computing is widely accepted today. In this model “enterprise data” is the most important element of the IT infrastructure. Explosively growing storage in both centralized and distributed environments must be managed intelligently while ensuring that storage data remains available to all who need it. Intelligent storage and network management software suites like the Hitachi Resource Manager software package, therefore, are at the heart of the enterprise’s ability to achieve high levels of performance and availability to meet business objectives.

Hitachi Resource Manager Provides Powerful Device-level Storage Management Capability

As shown in Table 6, this comprehensive systems and software management offering brings together 11 powerful software solutions, with those shown in bold being standard.

	Product Support		O/S Support
	Thunder	Lightning	Open	IBM®
	9500™ V	9900™ V		S/390®
	Series	Series
Hitachi Resource Manager™
Remote Console – Storage Manager		✔	✔	✔
Hitachi Graph-Track™		✔	✔	✔
SNMP Agent	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sun™ Java™ Agent	✔	✔	✔	✔
Host Storage Domains	✔	✔	✔
Hitachi LUN Manager / LUN Expansion	✔	✔	✔
Hitachi SANtinel™	✔	✔	✔	✔
Hitachi Virtual LUN / LUN Expansion	✔	✔	✔
Hitachi VLVI Manager		✔		✔
Hitachi FlashAccess™	✔	✔	✔	✔
Cache Management Host Agent		✔		✔

Shipped with every Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Thunder 9500™ V Series and Lightning 9900 V Series systems, these integrated software packages are used by storage managers to display system configuration, create user name/password security for administrators, set up RAID groups, allocate LUNs, expand LUNs, and format storage. Storage administrators who need a flexible, easy-to-use configuration and error-management tool will find Resource Manager software package is an ideal choice. Users can monitor and manage their storage systems through a graphical user interface.

The Resource Manager software package can also help optimize performance by

providing valuable resource utilization information, such as I/O activity, cache usage, and availability status/event notification. Administrators can use Password Protection to authorize users. This provides protection against unauthorized access to the Management mode of Resource Manager software, and stores the password list at the array. Reliable error management and reporting offers a big breakthrough for IT troubleshooters who seek rapid-fire detection and notification to maintain productivity.

The following is a description of the Resource Manager modules and capabilities

applicable to Thunder 9500 V Series and Lightning 9900 V Series systems as summarized in Table 6.

1. Out-of-band Management

Two LANs can be attached to the Thunder 9500 V Series systems: an internal LAN (private LAN), which is used to connect the service processors of multiple

Table 6 - Summary of Hitachi Resource Manager solutions and the products they support.

Hitachi Resource Manager software package provides the ultimate in reliable, easy-to-use hardware performance and availability management software.

Out-of-band management ensures data security, data accessibility, and data manageability.

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