Documentation Center provides the documentation set for Storage Essentials, including the PDFs, online help, release notes, and support matrix.
Figure 3 Accessing the Documentation Center
To manage and monitor your elements in Storage Essentials, discover your elements in HP Systems Insight Manager or HP Storage Essentials.
This product provides two types of discovery:
•Discovery from HP SIM - Lets you perform all of your discovery tasks within the framework of Systems Insight Manager. Use Discovery from HP SIM if you are familiar with the HP SIM interface. Use Discovery from HP SIM when you want to manage and monitor not only storage, but other elements on your network, such as printers, enclosers and racks.
•Discovery from HP SE - Lets you perform all of your discovery tasks within the framework of Storage Essentials. Use Discovery from HP SE if you are familiar with the HP SE interface. Use Discovery from HP SE if you want to manage and monitor only storage.
See ”Discovering Applications, Backup Servers and Hosts” on page 93 and ”Discovering Applications, Backup Servers and Hosts” on page 93.
Storage Essentials runs on a central server, and it relies upon CIM Extensions to provide information about hosts and applications. A CIM Extension is a small software program that gathers information about a host and its applications. The CIM Extension then provides the information it has gathered to Storage Essentials. If you want to monitor a host and its applications, install a CIM Extension on the host. Refer to the Installation Guide for more information on how to install CIM Extensions.
Storage Essentials can simplify your complex environment and lower your cost of management with
The management server integrates the various components in the storage area network infrastructure into a CIM/WBEM/SMI standards based database so you can eliminate any vendor 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, switches, and tape libraries. Since the SAN is dedicated to transporting storage data, it frees up the data network for regular TCP/IP traffic.
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 server's integrated storage management lowers your cost of acquiring and managing a heterogeneous storage environment.
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