Symantec 5.1 manual About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

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8Getting started with the CommandCentral family About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter: Provides a global view of storage assets mapped to your organization, business insight about inventory and utilization, on-demand customized reporting, and personalized dashboards.

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See “About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter” on page 20.

About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

Veritas CommandCentral Storage by Symantec represents an entire storage resource management (SRM) solution, giving you what you need to manage your storage infrastructure more effectively. It gives you the following capabilities:

Offers a single console from which data center administrators deploy, manage, and expand a multi-vendor networked storage environment. The CommandCentral Storage Console seamlessly integrates performance and policy management, storage provisioning, and zoning capabilities to ensure that the storage infrastructure runs as efficiently as possible. The Console enables users to set policies that automate notification, recovery, and other user-definable actions.

Discovers and tracks the utilization and allocation of storage resources down to the disk level. The reporting features in CommandCentral Storage provide a complete and detailed view into precisely how and where storage—for office documents, files, applications, email, and databases—is used in your enterprise.

Shows usage trends and makes forward projections. You can gather data both locally and remotely (through a managed host). This means you can get baseline information without huge deployment costs. Armed with this data, you can do predictive modeling to analyze the return on your storage investment. You also have what you need to implement a program of departmental chargeback.

Using CommandCentral Storage together with other Symantec software, IT managers have the tools they need to perform real, active, end-to-end storage resource management and make strategic decisions about their future storage needs.

By actively managing the entire data path from application to array, CommandCentral Storage helps ensure optimal performance and availability of business critical applications. CommandCentral Storage also offers customizable policy-based management to automate notification, recovery, and other user-definable actions.

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Contents Veritas CommandCentral Getting Started Guide CommandCentral Getting Started Guide Legal NoticeSymantec Corporation Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino, CA Technical Support Contacting Technical SupportCustomer service Licensing and registrationMaintenance agreement resources Additional enterprise servicesAbout the CommandCentral family This document includes the following topicsAbout Veritas CommandCentral Storage Enhanced agentless discovery of storage resources What’s new in CommandCentral StorageManagement and discovery Improved Data Module file scanning Discovery of replication objects for HP EVA storage arraysAdded in-context performance reports for certain objects ReportingSybase ASE 15 support Installation Added the Switch Port Usage Trend reportVxVM volumes New sample ad hoc reportsReduced media and install footprint for the managed host Other enhancementsWindows Server 2008 support Red Hat Linux 5.0 supportAbility to set new managed hosts in unmanaged state Hotfix deployment mechanismStorage network technologies What you can do with CommandCentral StorageManaging the storage network introduction Storage administrator requirements Storage virtualizationDiscovery of storage resources Versatile displays of information about storage resourcesPolicies for managing resources Data collectionAbout Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change Manager Storage provisioningWhat you can do with CommandCentral Storage Change Manager About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter How CommandCentral Storage Change Manager worksReport types and scopes Whats new in CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 MP1 Data rollup enhancementsInclusion of NetApp unified storage device data Inclusion of custom storage object attributesStorage tier rule builder enhancements Reporting enhancementsData source preparation enhancements Data rollup view enhancementsNew package and metrics NetApp VolumesDashboard customization with selected reports What you can do with CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter SSL modeReport access enhancements Security enhancementsHow CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter works Supported operating systems for CommandCentral Getting CommandCentral up and runningSystem requirements for CommandCentral Component Operating systems supported Installation overviewWeb browser support for the CommandCentral Console Getting help Where to find more information about CommandCentralCommandCentral on the Web About CommandCentral documentation About CommandCentral Storage documentationAbout CommandCentral Storage Change Manager documentation About CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter documentation Commenting on product documentationStoragemanagementdocs@symantec.com Page FlexVol volumes. See also volume See CommandCentral Storage Alarm ServiceSee CommandCentral Storage Alert Manager Database and Veritas NetBackup are examples of applicationsTo configuration settings See Symantec Product Authentication ServiceSee Symantec Product Authorization Service See Command Central Configuration UtilityService commands and queries Virtualization serversKernel-to-kernel broadcasts Users can monitor, define, and modify policiesGroups. Contrast with unconfigured storage See CommandCentral Storage ConsoleSee CommandCentral Storage database Data to users through a standard Web browserData is stored in the CommandCentral Storage database That store data. Also storage deviceAlso OS handle Extended discoveryFeature. See also discovery At least one FC switch and may also contain zonesHas occurred for one or more objects on the storage network Information about them. See also discoveryDisplays the correct object type GroupOn specific applications Explorer was known as the Mgex explorerPage Accessibility from specified SAN-attached hosts See Veritas NetBackupAvailable storage Was known as the AgentPage That acts as a virtual subvolume with special attributes Types for storage, networking, and application servicesExtent pool storage array Component such as an IP address or mounted file systemRoutinely whenever an in-band explorer executes To peripheral devices such as disk and media drivesStorage device fixed disk attached to a Scsi bus Several managed hostsLanguage or protocol See also hard zoningSee SAN See deviceSymantec Product Authentication Service Mark that is recorded between backup images on a tapeBetween them Console Task Status tabSecurity See NetApp unified storageSee Vail A wide range of applications in multiplatform environmentsThey were fabric capable Corresponds to the system’s host name. See also IP addressApplications as if it were a physical computer See virtual fabricSee Veritas Volume Manager See CommandCentral Storage Web EngineAn extent pool. See also extent pool Aggregate’s disks and RAID groups. See also aggregateCommandCentral Glossary