QuickSpecs
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
Software Support
Software | Adobe Acrobat Reader (to read product install and admin guides) |
| Device Managers for each managed device (arrays, switches, tape libraries, etc.) |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer - or - Netscape Navigator |
| Performance Metrics: |
| Storage Optimizer relies on HBA SNIA libraries to gather performance information for hosts. |
| OpenView Performance Agents (OVPA) or OpenView Operations (OVO}) provide additional metrics. SNIA |
| libraries are available, at no cost, with all major operating systems. If both OVPA and OVO (both are |
| purchased items) are to be present, OVPA most be installed first. |
| Storage Optimizer may also leverage performance reporting tools for collecting |
| data. For example, HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor XP is required for performance metrics from the |
| HP XP array family. |
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Software Warranty | Warranty code 3U; duration of limited warranty: 90 days from the day of purchase, replacement of defective media |
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Software Licensing | The software licenses are based on terabytes (TB) of storage capacity managed by SAM. The application product comes with |
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| software on CD and documentation. Installation keys are shipped when HP OpenView Storage Area Manager suite or |
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| keys". Storage Area Manager utilizes two types of licenses: installation and operational. |
| Installation licenses are included on the entitlement Certificate that is delivered with the software. These licenses enables |
| you to use Storage Area Manager or the individual SAM product for 60 days after initial installation, which allows you time |
| to request, receive and install your operational license(s); and evaluate each Storage Area Manager applications. |
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Features
The HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) software suite consists of five components: HP OpenView Storage Node Manager (device management); HP OpenView Storage Builder (capacity management); HP OpenView Storage Optimizer (performance management); HP OpenView Storage Allocater (storage allocation and virtualized access control); and HP OpenView Storage Accountant (storage usage metering and billing). Each component functions either individually or together to enable integrated storage resource, application capacity and infrastructure management. This highly flexible "building block" architecture and
Storage Node Manager | Automated discovery, mapping, monitoring, and management of devices through firewalls across distributed, |
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| Continuous health monitoring and |
| Graphical zone presentation. |
| Manager of Manager (MoM) functionality for centralized management of large environments. |
| Common launch platform for central device management. |
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Storage Builder | Storage allocation and utilization views by application, host, device, user, directory, volumes, LUN. |
| Monitor, manage and plan growth of Oracle and Exchange capacity via a single pane of glass. |
| Historical trending and future extrapolations. |
| Reports, graphs, and charts for capacity management and planning. |
| Automated notification of capacity threshold violations. |
| Application/Host utilization to LUN mapping for improved understanding of environment. |
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Storage Optimizer | Monitoring of host, storage, and infrastructure performance |
| Automated baselining, threshold determination, and |
| Storage performance reporting, historical trending, and analysis |
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