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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
Product Function and Value Highlights
IBMTotalStorage
Productivity
Center Basic
Edition
IBMTotalStorage Productivity
Center Basic Edition is designed
to provide basic storage
resource management through
a centralized location.It extends
existing management of a sin-
gle storage system and provides
capabilities such as storage
reporting,monitoring, policy-
based management and stor-
age provisioning.
●Inexpensive entry point for IT
managers requiring basic
asset and capacity reporting.
●Designed to provide storage
management via the SNIA
Storage Management
Interface Specification
(SMI-S),which includes the
IBMSystem Storage DS fam-
ily,IBM System Storage SAN
Volume Controller (SVC) and
other vendor storage devices
that have implemented sup-
port for the SMI-S standards.
IBMTotalStorage
Productivity
Center for Disk
In a pooled or virtualized SAN
environment,multiple devices
work together to create a stor-
age solution.IBM TotalStorage
Productivity Center for Disk is
designed to provide integrated
administration,performance
analytics,capacity utilization,
storage optimization,green tools
and replication features for
these environments.
●Designed to help reduce the
complexity and cost of stor-
age management while
improving data availability
●Offers centralized,open
standards–based manage-
ment of storage devices
●Designed to help enhance
storage administrator
productivity
●Offers proactive management
of storage devices
IBMTotalStorage
Productivity
Center for Data
IBMTotalStorage Productivity
Center for Data is a Storage
Resource Management (SRM)
tool for storage environments
that provides a set of policy-
driven,automated tools for
managing storage capacity,
availability,events, performance
and assets,including DAS, NAS
and SAN technologies.
●Designed to help leverage
and optimize existing storage
resources and perform stor-
age management with a high
level of control
●Designed to help maximize
storage utilization
●Designed to help you man-
age more storage with the
same staff
IBMTotalStorage
Productivity
Center for Fabric
IBMTotalStorage Productivity
Center for Fabric is designed to
help automate the management
of heterogeneous storage net-
works and works with a broad
range of devices so businesses
can leverage and better use
existing technology investments.
It is designed to provide com-
prehensive management of
physical and logical configura-
tions for multi-vendor SANs with
automatic resource discovery,
event monitoring and alerting,
zone control and SAN error-
prediction capabilities.
●Designed to help predict stor-
age network failures before
they happen,enabling pre-
ventative maintenance
●Designed to help accelerate
problem isolation when fail-
ures occur
●Designed to create a single
point of control,administra-
tion and security for the man-
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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
IBMTotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Replication
TotalStorage Productivity Center
for Replication is designed to
simplify and automate the con-
figuration of your replication
environment allowing for more
effective Metro Mirror,Global
Mirror and IBMFlashCopy man-
agement.It is also designed to
monitor and automate copy
operations across devices
to support a replication
environment.
TotalStorage Productivity Center
for Replication is available in
both Two-Site and Three-Site
Business Continuity options and
provides disaster recovery man-
agement through planned and
unplanned failover and failback
automation for the IBMESS
Model 800,IBM DS6000,
IBMDS8000 and the
IBMSystem Storage SAN
Volume Controller.
●Automates the configuration
of your IBMDS8000,
DS6000™ and ESS Model
800 and the IBMSAN Volume
Controller advanced copy
services features
●Monitors and manages the
replication operations to
ensure successful completion
from your source volumes to
your disaster recovery
volumes
●Allows you to monitor the
progress of the copy services
so you can verify the amount
of replication that has been
done as well as the amount
of time needed to complete
the replication
●Designed to provide auto-
mated failover to keep your
critical data online and avail-
able to your users even if
your primary site fails.When
the primary site comes back
on,the software manages
failback to the default
configuration as well.
IBMTotalStorage
Productivity
Center Standard
Edition
Combines the best of Disk,Data
and Fabric products together as
one orderable product.
●Having Disk,Data and Fabric
allows higher levels of
value—i.e.,combined SAN
and disk performance reports
or automated workflows to
do provisioning (under the
control of Tivoli Provisioning
Manager)
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●Quantified business benefits
●Backup/restore and business continuity planning
●Performance and capacity planning
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●Networked storage architecture design
●SAN configuration and integration services
●Proof of concept,validation and certification
●Implementation,testing and migration services
●Education and training
●Installation,relocation, cabling and site preparation
●Business and application recovery services
●Systems monitoring and management
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and backup/restore services on a usage basis.
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storage.