IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select

Highlights

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select is designed to help reduce the complexity of managing IBM System Storage® DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000, IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM XIV devices by allowing administrators to configure, manage and monitor performance of their entire storage infrastructure from a single console. Productivity Center for Disk Select offers equivalent functionality to Productivity Center for Disk.

Administrators can monitor and analyze performance statistics for these storage systems down to five minute intervals. The performance data can be viewed in real time in the topology viewer, stored for historical reporting, or used to generate timely alerts by monitoring performance thresholds for various device parameters.

Utilizing a new Storage Management Initiative—Specification (SMI-S) Common Information Model (CIM) agent, Productivity Center for Disk Select helps gather performance data such as:

• Controller input and output rate (read/write/total)
• Controller data rate (read/write/total)
• Controller cache hits percentage (read/write/overall)
• Port I/O rate (read/write/total)
• Port data rate (read/write/total)

Productivity Manager for Disk Select is designed to enable the storage administrator to:

• Enable proactive performance management with a single, integrated console for monitoring IBM System Storage devices
• Receive timely alerts that can enable event action by setting performance thresholds based on business policies
• Allow administrators to monitor metrics, such as I/O rates and cache utilization, and support optimization of storage through the identification of the best LUNs across multiple storage subsystems
• Measure and track service levels by storing historical performance statistics for analysis and generation of reports on monitored devices

Key benefits include:

• Designed to offer continuous and proactive performance analysis with comprehensive monitoring and fault identification to help improve SAN availability
• Designed to help you improve storage return on investment by keeping SANs operational reliably and dependably
• Designed to help reduce storage administration costs by simplifying the management of complex SANs
• Supports the performance reporting capabilities on the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and SVC Entry Edition with attached DS3000, DS4000 and/or DS5000 devices
• Supports performance reporting capabilities for any storage virtualized by the IBM Storwize V7000

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select is set apart from IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk because it is:

• Specifically packaged to support IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, Storwize V7000 and XIV
• Licensed per storage device, such as disk controllers and their respective expansion units. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition and/or IBM Virtual Disk System controllers are not counted as a storage device when computing Productivity Center for Disk Select pricing within these environments