IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition

As a component of the IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center (TPC), IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Limited Edition is focused on providing basic device discovery and asset management services for IBM System Storage™ DS3000, DS4000®, DS5000, DS6000™ & DS8000® products, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller in addition to select IBM tape libraries and heterogeneous storage environments.

TPC Basic Edition provides storage administrators a simple way to conduct device management for multiple storage arrays and SAN fabric components from a single integrated console that also is the base of operations for the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite.

Productivity Center Basic Edition is designed to help you:

• Discover and configure IBM and heterogeneous SMI-S supported devices
• Perform event gathering, error logging and launch device element managers
• Provide basic asset and capacity reporting
• Provisioning support including LUN allocation and assignment
• Display an end-to-end topology view of your storage infrastructure and health console
• Enable a simple upgrade path to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition (or single priced modules)

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition is a management option offered with IBM midrange and high-end storage systems. This tool provides storage administrators with a simple way to conduct device management for multiple storage arrays and SAN fabric components from a single integrated console that also is the base of operations for the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite. The features of Basic Edition are also included within:

• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication

Details about integration and interoperability, including device support, database support, server hardware requirements and O/S platform support can be found on the "Install/use" tab in Product support. Other technical resources such as troubleshooting, downloads, and planning information can also be found in the Product support section.

Highlights

The IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center Suite is designed to:

• Help centralize the management of your storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on
• Provide a single management application with modular integrated components that are easy to install and provide common services for simple/consistent configuration and consistent operations across host, fabric and storage systems
• Manage performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in-depth performance monitoring and analysis on SAN fabric performance
• Manage the capacity utilisation and availability of storage systems, file systems and databases
• Monitor, manage and control (zone) SAN fabric components
• Automate capacity provisioning of file systems
• Monitor and track the performance of SAN-attached SMI-S compliant storage devices
• Manage advanced replication services (Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and FlashCopy®)

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can help you manage the capacity utilisation of storage systems, file systems and databases and automate file-system capacity provisioning, perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface, tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the Storage Area Network (SAN) and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.