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

IBM TotalStorage Expert Family

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

Product	Function and Value
IBM TotalStorage	Provides storage administrators with the capability to manage the
ESS Expert	performance of the IBM Enterprise Storage Server; this innovative
	tool furnishes 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
ETL Expert	management 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 Tivoli Storage Manager

Function and Value	Highlights
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to provide protection	● Designed to protect valu-
of your 24x7 applications and key data in the event of hard-	able data in the most cost-
ware, software or network failures. It offers move-and-store	effective manner
techniques and policy-based automation, which are	● Designed to archive inac-
designed to work together to help increase data and applica-	tive data to help reduce
tion protection, decrease disaster recovery time and lower	costs
storage administration costs. It manages inactive data, help-	● Designed to help ensure
ing you match the value of the data to the most cost-effec-	continuity and recovery
tive storage management practices. Tivoli Storage Manager
is designed to scale easily to protect hundreds of computers
running a dozen operating systems ranging from laptops to
mainframes and connected 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 software, helping to allow joint

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

Product	Function and Value	Highlights
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
(Formerly	for Disk is designed to provide inte-	● Offers centralized, open stan-
known as	grated administration, optimization	dards–based management of stor-
IBM
	and replication features for these vir-	age devices
TotalStorage
	tualization solutions.	● Designed to help enhance storage
Multiple		administrator productivity
Device
		● Offers proactive management of
Manager)
		storage devices
		● Designed to monitor and automate
		replication operations across stor-
		age devices

IBM TotalStorage	Provides the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of a
XRC Performance	running XRC configuration; the monitor function provides information
Monitor	at the 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
DFSMSdss™	Provides data movement, copy, backup and space management

customers to customize, better secure and extend the func-

tionality of their storage

environment.

TotalStorage	TotalStorage Productivity Center For
Productivity	Replication is designed to simplify
Center for	and automate the configuration of
Replication	your replication environment allowing
(Formerly	for more effective Peer-to-Peer
known	Remote Copy (PPRC) and IBM
as IBM
	FlashCopy management. It is also
TotalStorage
	designed to monitor copy operations
MDM
	across devices to support a replica-
Replication
	tion environment.
Manager)

●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

	functions
DFSMShsm™	Provides backup, recovery, migration and space management func-
	tions 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
DFSMStvs	Enables batch jobs and CICS® (Customer Information Control
	Systems) online transactions to update shared VSAM data sets con-

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data (Formerly known as IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager)

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

currently

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric (for- merly known as IBM Tivoli

SAN Manager)

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 report on storage net- work performance

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