IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning is an integrated storage capacity provisioning solution designed to simplify and automate complex cross-discipline tasks for provisioning storage capacity in the enterprise environment and is designed to move you from just-in-case provisioning to intelligent, automated on demand provisioning.
The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning is comprised of:
- IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
(formerly IBM Tivoli® Storage Resource Manager) - IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
(formerly IBM Tivoli SAN Manager) - IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk
(formerly IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager Performance Manager) - IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
(formerly IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager Replication Manager)
- IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
With increasing demand for their services and no increase in personnel to handle the demands, IT staffs are often forced to over provision IT resources, including storage capacity, based on worst-case, peak demands. The introduction of storage area networks has added to this challenge, potentially making storage capacity provisioning a very labor intensive process requiring as many as 50 individual steps and up to several days of an expert's time. The result - the IT environment can become inflexible, expensive, underutilized and difficult to manage.
The Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning is designed to help you:
- Reduce management costs- through workflow automation
- Improve availability - by reducing the human error factor and automating your best practices
- Quickly Provision New Servers and Applications - by facilitating the integrated provisioning of servers and storage through shared workflows and a common tool
Offering benefits and highlights
TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning is designed to allow you to automate and execute the numerous steps necessary to provision storage in a consistent manner, helping reduce or eliminate human error. Provisioning capabilities are provided by the TotalStorage Productivity Center, while Tivoli Provisioning Manager facilitates the automation of the provisioning tasks through the use of storage workflows. TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning includes workflow building blocks designed to help you easily build and customize your own solution workflows with minimal effort. The simplicity and flexibility of workflows helps enable you to automate at your own pace. Through the use of automated storage capacity provisioning workflows, helps allow you to:
- Provision storage capacity with consistency in a repeatable and auditable manner
- Automate storage capacity provisioning at your own pace with minimal effort
- Enable staff to manage cross discipline IT projects more effectively and efficiently
- Improve responsiveness to the storage needs of applications
