IBM DS4300 manual IBM TotalStorage Expert Family, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Dfsms Family, Dfsort

IBM TotalStorage Expert Family

Adds value to the storage subsystem solution by providing information for better management.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Function and Value Highlights

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

Product Function and Value Highlights

Product	Function and Value
IBM TotalStorage	Provides storage administrators with the capability to manage the per-
ESS Expert	formance of the IBM Enterprise Storage Server; this innovative tool fur-
	nishes storage asset and capacity management capabilities to centrally
	manage Enterprise Storage Servers located across the enterprise
IBM TotalStorage	Provides a high-performance monitoring tool to help simplify the man-
ETL Expert	agement of IBM tape subsystems that include the IBM TotalStorage
	Enterprise Tape Library, Virtual Tape Server and Peer-to-Peer Virtual
	Tape Server
IBM TotalStorage	Offers a collection of products designed to provide a comprehensive
Management	menu of solutions to meet the storage management requirements of
Toolkit	z/OS customers
IBM TotalStorage	Provides the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of a run-

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to provide protection of your 24x7 applications and key data in the event of hardware, software or network failures. It offers move-and-store tech- niques and policy-based automation, which are designed to work together to help increase data and application protection, decrease disaster recovery time and lower storage administra- tion costs. It manages inactive data, helping you match the value of the data to the most cost-effective storage manage- ment practices. Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to scale easily to protect hundreds of computers running a dozen oper- ating systems ranging from laptops to mainframes and con- nected together via the Internet, WANs, LANs or SANs. Tivoli Storage Manager also offers open, easy-to-use APIs designed to enable ISVs to more easily adapt their solutions to IBM soft- ware, helping to allow joint customers to customize, better

●Designed to protect valu- able data in the most cost- effective manner

●Designed to archive inac- tive data to help reduce costs

●Designed to help ensure continuity and recovery

TotalStorage	In a pooled or virtualized SAN envi-	● Designed to help reduce the com-
Productivity	ronment, multiple devices work	plexity and cost of storage man-
Center for	together to create a storage solution.	agement while improving data
Disk	IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center	availability
	for Disk is designed to provide inte-	● Offers centralized, open stan-
	grated administration, optimization	dards–based management of stor-
	and replication features for these vir-	age devices
	tualization solutions.	● Designed to help enhance storage
		administrator productivity
		● Offers proactive management of
		storage devices
		● Designed to monitor and automate
		replication operations across stor-
		age devices

XRC Performance	ning XRC configuration; the monitor function provides information at the
Monitor	real-time, historic and summary levels

DFSMS Family

Provides automated and central storage management in the z/OS environment

Product	Function and Value
DFSMSdfp™	Provides data access, program and device management functions that
	furnish effective management of active data

secure and extend the functionality of their storage environment.

TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication

TotalStorage Productivity Center For Replication is designed to simplify and automate the configuration of your replication environment allowing for more effective Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) and

IBM FlashCopy management. It is also designed to monitor copy operations across devices to support a replica- tion environment.

●Automates the configuration of your ESS advanced copy services (FlashCopy and PPRC)

●Monitors and manages the ESS copy operations to ensure success- ful completion from your source volumes to your disaster recovery volumes bsystems

DFSMSdss™	Provides data movement, copy, backup and space management
	functions
DFSMShsm™	Provides backup, recovery, migration and space management functions
	that furnish effective management of inactive data
DFSMSrmm™	Provides a policy-driven solution for the management of removable
	media, such as tape cartridges and reels
DFSORT™	Provides a solution for faster and easier data sorting, reporting and
	analysis

IBM TotalSto rage Productivity Center for Data

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is an intelligent console for storage environments that provide a set of policy-driven automated tools for managing storage capacity, avail- ability, events, performance and assets, including DAS, NAS and SAN technologies.

●Designed to help leverage and opti- mize existing storage resources and perform storage management with a high level of control

●Designed to help maximize storage utilization

●Designed to be able to manage more storage with the same staff

DFSMStvs	Enables batch jobs and CICS® (Customer Information Control Systems)
	online transactions to update shared VSAM data sets concurrently

IBM TotalSto rage Productivity Center for Fabric

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric is designed to help auto- mate the management of heteroge- neous storage networks and works with a broad range of devices, so businesses can leverage and better use existing technology investments. It is designed to provide comprehen- sive management of physical and logical configurations for multi-vendor SANs with automatic resource discov- ery, event monitoring and alerting, zone control and SAN error-prediction capabilities.

●Designed to help predict storage network failures before they hap- pen, enabling preventative maintenance

●Designed to help accelerate prob- lem isolation when failures occur

●Designed to create a single point of control, administration and security for the management of heteroge- neous storage networks

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