18Getting started with the CommandCentral family
About Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change Manager
Storage provisioning
Using tools provided in CommandCentral Storage, a storage administrator can allocate storage resources to specific hosts and applications and control access to storage resources. You can also create LUNs from unconfigured storage. Another feature allows provisioning jobs to be scheduled for times when the network is less busy.
Through the use of storage accounts, a senior administrator can establish provisioning guidelines, or policies, that regulate the actions of
Graphical reports about network resources, performance, and events
CommandCentral Storage includes an extensive set of graphical reports with which you can display collected data about resources, performance, history, and changes on your storage network. You can also create custom reports tailored to your own needs. By enabling you to monitor things like trends in storage usage, these reports can help you use your storage assets more efficiently.
About Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change Manager
Veritas CommandCentral™ Storage Change Manager by Symantec provides
CommandCentral Storage Change Manager includes the following capabilities:
■Discovers the storage resources in your data center. This allows storage administrators to monitor your storage infrastructure.
■Detects changes made to your storage resources. This allows storage administrators to monitor changes and assess the impact those changes have on your storage infrastructure.
■Assesses the changes to storage resources against custom policies and best practice policies. With custom policies, storage administrators can define connectivity, configuration, and compliance requirements for your storage assets. Best practice policies monitor your storage assets using
■Notifies you of changes to storage resources that violate your custom policies. This allows storage administrators to correct changes that can potentially disrupt your storage infrastructure.
