1If you install CIM extensions on the management server, the Database Admin Utility returns the following error and does not run correctly: [isAppIQCIMOMAlive] - false

About this Product

This product can simplify your complex environment and lower your cost of management with CIM-based integrated storage management. The management software integrates the management of applications, servers, storage networks and storage subsystems in a single, easy to implement and intuitive solution.

The management software integrates the various components in the storage infrastructure into a CIM/WBEM/SMI-S standards-based database so you can eliminate vendor dependencies and view and manage your infrastructure as a whole.

By giving your administrators a single, integrated console to manage tactical activities such as provisioning storage, managing real time events, installing new applications, and migrating servers and storage, as well as strategic activities such as forecasting, planning and cost analysis, the management software's integrated storage management lowers your cost of acquiring and managing a heterogeneous storage environment.

Storage Management Terms

•CIM - A common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall management information in a network/enterprise environment.

•Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) - An initiative based on a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments.

See the glossary in the management server User Guide or in the management server help system for additional definitions.

Key Benefits

•More efficient use of existing assets

•Increased application availability and performance

•Quicker deployment of storage infrastructure and business applications

•Protection of customer flexibility and investments with a standards-based interface

Key Features

•End-to-end visibility of business applications - Provides an interface for you to monitor your business applications, including their associated infrastructure and interdependencies.

•Integrated storage management - Lowers cost of acquiring and managing a heterogeneous storage environment using multiple disparate, point solutions.

•Standards-based architecture - Protects customer flexibility and investments with a standards-based interface for managing heterogeneous storage environments.

•Storage server, network and subsystem provisioning - Reduces manual processes and risk of downtime due to free-space outages with multi-level storage provisioning.

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