IBM DS6000 Series manual IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

Figure 14-1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

TPC is the integration point for storage and fabric management, and replication, as depicted in Figure 14-1.It provides a launchpad for the following IBM TotalStorage Open Software

Family and Tivoli products:

￿IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager

￿IBM Tivoli SAN Manager

￿IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

￿IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager

These products allow for the management of data through its lifecycle, device configuration, performance, replication, storage network fabric, data backup, data availability, and data recovery, as well as enterprise policies for managing host, application, database, and filesystem data.

As a component of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Multiple Device Manager is designed to reduce the complexity of managing SAN storage devices by allowing administrators to configure, manage, and monitor storage from a single console.

The devices managed are not restricted to IBM brand products. In fact, any device compliant with the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative

Specification (SMI-S) can be managed with the IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager. The protocol utilized to enable the central management is called the Common Information Model (CIM). This open standards based protocol uses XML to define CIM objects and to

manage storage devices over HTTP transactions. Figure 14-2 on page 284 shows the MDM main panel.

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