Hitachi 9900 Series Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Resource Manager, Service Level Management

Hitachi Data Systems

The Hitachi Graph-Track™GUI is widely recognized as user friendly.

Hitachi Resource Manager™ 9000

The following is a summary list of the many ways in which the Hitachi Resource Manager™ can simplify IT operations, improve availability and performance service levels for business critical OLTP and DSS applications, and thereby enable the more rapid deployment of new applications by managing data more intelligently.

Service Level Management

•Policy Management

•Security Management

•Automation

•Monitoring/Reporting

•Storage Management

Deployment Management

•Asset Management

•Change Management

•Capacity Planning

Compliance Management

•Event Management

•Performance Management

•Quota Planning

•Accounting Management

•Problem Planning

SNMP support ensures compliance with all major systems management platforms

Hitachi Resource Manager™ supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP is the most widely used network management protocol in the marketplace. System Information Messages (SIMs) are converted to SNMP Management Information Blocks (MIBs) for use with Hitachi Resource Manager™ software, or the VERITAS® Storage Manager™, Tivoli®, CA Unicenter TNG, HP® OpenView®. With CA Unicenter TNG, “super MIBs” allow the control of the Lightning 9900™ using CA Unicenter commands. This out-of-band6reporting format ensures that Hitachi Resource Manager™ 9000 can determine the status of your Lightning 9900™ storage system even if the data channel path is down.

Hitachi Graph-Track™takes the guess-work out of performance management

As the cornerstone of the software utilities of the Hitachi Resource Manager™ 9000 software suite, the Hitachi Graph-Track™GUI is widely recognized as user friendly. Icons and pull-down menus define and display data, while point-and-click capabilities and on-line help further enhance its ease of use. All Hitachi Graph-Track™data can be exported in several formats quickly and effortlessly, for use in other data analysis and reporting programs.

Hitachi Graph-Track™gives users a more reliable and centralized way to manage performance. Available for S/390®, UNIX®, and Windows NT/2000® environments, this unique tool monitors hardware performance and supplies complete system storage

6“Out of Band” refers to the path that system management messages travel which is a different path from the data. “In band” messages would compete with data for bandwidth.

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