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Productivity Center Basic Edition is focused on providing basic device management services for IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, DS6000 & DS8000 products, IBM SAN Volume Controller and heterogeneous storage environments. Productivity Center Basic Edition is a management option available with IBM Tivoli Storage hardware acquisitions. This tool 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 also does discovery and asset management of tape libraries, specifically IBM 3494 and 3584 Tape Libraries.
Productivity Center Basic Edition provides:
- Discovery and configuration of supported devices
- Event gathering, error logging, and launch of device element managers
- Provisioning support, including LUN allocation and assignment
- Basic Asset and Capacity Reporting
- A Topology viewer—End to End Storage Topology View and Health Console
- An simple upgrade path to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk, Data or Fabric
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.
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