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Now that you've built your SAN, you're finding it increasingly difficult to manage. Hosts from one vendor, storage devices from another, different operating systems, different file systems, different access methods — all of this creating a complexity you are not prepared for.
We have the answer. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric is a comprehensive management solution for multi-vendor SANs. It includes automatic resource and topology discovery, monitoring performance and alerts, and zone control. Productivity Center for Fabric is an enterprise scalable solution architected to ANSI SAN standards, allowing you to choose best of breed products for your storage infrastructure.
Productivity Center for Fabric includes advanced performance management of the SAN environment to help customers enforce storage service levels. Productivity Center for Fabric allows you to specify throughput thresholds and alert storage administrators to potential bottlenecks. Productivity Center for Fabric is designed to help you:
- Simplify the task of SAN management and configuration
- Maintain SAN availability
- Monitor SAN performance
- Improve SAN ROI
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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Automatic device discovery is designed to enable you to see the data path from the servers to the storage switches and storage systems and to easily manage your SANs from a single console. |
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Real time monitoring and alerts are designed to monitor SAN events, and alerts administrators of problems to help you maintain |
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Zone Control is designed to give you comprehensive fabric management from a single console by giving you the ability to add and remove devices from zones. |
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Enterprise Scalability accommodates new and ever changing business needs by scaling from SAN islands to Enterprise SANs |
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End-to-End SAN Performance Reporting provides diagnostic
and performance reporting including threshold reporting at the
switch and port levels and displays this information in the
common topology viewer to help you maintain high SAN availability. |
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