dependencies and view and manage your infrastructure as a whole. A SAN is a network configuration that is dedicated to transporting storage data among network devices, such as storage systems, servers, tape libraries, and switches. Since the SAN is dedicated to transporting storage data, it frees up the data network for regular TCP/IP traffic.

This product gives 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 server's integrated storage management lowers your cost of acquiring and managing a heterogeneous storage environment.

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

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.

•Storage Management Initiative (SMI) — A SNIA standard for implementing data storage management using CIM.

See the glossary in this user guide for additional definitions.

Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition

HP Storage Essentials is available in a Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition provides a subset of the functionality of HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition. Some of the features available in Enterprise Edition can be purchased separately for Standard Edition. To determine which features apply to your product, see the List of Features. For a list of the devices supported by Standard Edition, see the HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition Support Matrix. The List of Features and the support matrix are accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

Table 2 on page 4 describes which chapters in this guide apply to Standard Edition:

Table 2 Chapters That Apply to Standard Edition

Chapter Name

Applies to Standard Edition?

 

 

Overview, page 1

Yes

 

 

4 Overview