2Wire manual Kit Contents, Customer Benefits, Business Value, Simplified, Automated, Operations

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HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1

Overview

Kit Contents

Installation Guide

Administrator's Guide

Storage Area Manager tutorial CD

Customer Benefits

Business Value	Increases operational efficiency through centralized, simplified and automated management and
	onitoring of multi-vendor enterprise-wide storage resources, applications and infrastructure.
	Decreases Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
	Increases resource utilization.
	Increases customer satisfaction through guaranteed quality of storage services.
	Provides a transparent growth path for the future.
Simplified, Automated	Seamlessly integrated software suite for maximum leverage of management and monitoring capabilities.
Operations	Intuitive, easy-to-use tools and automated wizards to drive staff efficiency and shorten learning curve.
	Automated device discovery and topology mapping to graphically display devices and their physical and redundant
	connections.
	Switch zoning presentation and management for effective and simplified administration.
	Continuous health status and event monitoring to quickly isolate and solve problems.
	Secure management through firewalls to provide management flexibility.
	Automated reporting to save time and increase QoS.
	Volume management to enable mapping of host utilization to LUN consumption.
	Support for multi-vendor devices and OSs to simplify management of heterogeneous storage.
	Out-of-the box integration with enterprise management solutions to enable integrated service management.
Centralized Management	Central console and common reporting structure to manage and monitor storage [service] availability, performance,
	usage, cost and growth.
	Common launch platform for devices to enable centralization of storage management functions.
	Manager-of-Managers capabilities to centralize management of separate or geographically distributed sites.
Optimized Resource	Automated identification of wasted or stale storage to free up capacity.
Utilization	Monitor, manage and plan growth of Oracle and Exchange capacity via a single pane of glass.
	Usage metering and billing to recover cost for delivering storage services.
	Magnitude increase of operational efficiency through simplified, automated, painless management of the enterprise
	storage resources and infrastructure.
Maximized Availability	Unique storage service management capabilities to enable storage to be managed and monitored as an integral
	component of the overall enterprise IT service.
	Inventory of allocated vs. unallocated and used vs. free storage by host, storage device, LUN, partition, volume,
	directory, and user.
	Automated capacity threshold warning system for early notification of potential capacity shortfalls.
	Historical trending and future extrapolations to enable service stability and just-in-time capacity allocation.
	Assessment of customer usage and consumption patterns to anticipate future storage/service demands.
	Logical, online storage provisioning for storage allocation without impact on operations.
	Virtualized storage access control to provide highest levels of data integrity.
	Automated host access notification to ensure your data is safe from network intruders.
	User-roles for better customization and of your management environment.
Optimized Performance	Performance monitoring to identify bottlenecks before they impact business operations.
	Baselining and over-baseline notification to help identify potential slowdowns before they happen.
Customized Service	Classification of storage service offerings to better align storage usage with business value and needs.
Offering	Billing and charge-back.
	Storage usage metering and billing to recover your cost for providing storage services.
Growth Path for the Future	Broad range of multi-vendor device and system support to seamlessly manage existing and future storage and
	maximize your storage investments.
	Modular, building block product structure and additive capacity tier licenses.
	A unique service-driven management approach to enable you to take the next step towards providing storage utility
	services.

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