Symantec 5.1 manual About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

8Getting started with the CommandCentral family About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

■CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter: Provides a global view of storage assets mapped to your organization, business insight about inventory and utilization, on-demand customized reporting, and personalized dashboards.

For more information, refer to the following:

See “About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter” on page 20.

About Veritas CommandCentral Storage

Veritas CommandCentral Storage by Symantec represents an entire storage resource management (SRM) solution, giving you what you need to manage your storage infrastructure more effectively. It gives you the following capabilities:

■Offers a single console from which data center administrators deploy, manage, and expand a multi-vendor networked storage environment. The CommandCentral Storage Console seamlessly integrates performance and policy management, storage provisioning, and zoning capabilities to ensure that the storage infrastructure runs as efficiently as possible. The Console enables users to set policies that automate notification, recovery, and other user-definable actions.

■Discovers and tracks the utilization and allocation of storage resources down to the disk level. The reporting features in CommandCentral Storage provide a complete and detailed view into precisely how and where storage—for office documents, files, applications, email, and databases—is used in your enterprise.

■Shows usage trends and makes forward projections. You can gather data both locally and remotely (through a managed host). This means you can get baseline information without huge deployment costs. Armed with this data, you can do predictive modeling to analyze the return on your storage investment. You also have what you need to implement a program of departmental chargeback.

Using CommandCentral Storage together with other Symantec software, IT managers have the tools they need to perform real, active, end-to-end storage resource management and make strategic decisions about their future storage needs.

By actively managing the entire data path from application to array, CommandCentral Storage helps ensure optimal performance and availability of business critical applications. CommandCentral Storage also offers customizable policy-based management to automate notification, recovery, and other user-definable actions.