IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Simplify, automate and optimize management of your storage infrastructure

Feature	Benefits
Next-generation, web-based user interface	Provides simplified, icon-based navigation, breadcrumb trail for location awareness and uncluttered workspace that highlights resources and their health Provides rapid visibility and access to the information needed to manage your storage environment
Centralized management with topology viewer	Designed to increase the efficiency of storage administrators by reducing the number of tools required to manage the storage infrastructure
IBM System Storage® and other storage device management	Provides extensive operational control, asset and capacity management, and performance reporting for the latest IBM storage devices Manages your heterogeneous infrastructure through compliance with Storage Networking Industry Association’s Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Versions 1.0.2 and 1.1 (or later)
Comprehensive reporting integrated with IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence	Easily creates and integrates Cognos-based custom reports on capacity and performance Enables you to view and understand performance, capacity, utilization and availability metrics for your entire storage infrastructure
Integrated disaster recovery (DR) planning	Improves time to value and data protection—allows planning for replication when storage is provisioned
Complete provisioning	Provides increased efficiency and flexibility Enables you to schedule the provisioning task during the change control window or execute immediately
Automatic agentless SAN device discovery	Automates management of SAN infrastructure Simplifies the analysis of multiple aspects of the storage environment, including capacity, utilization, assets and availability
Storage resource agents	Collects logical capacity utilization data from servers Provides insights into actual utilization of allocated storage
Enriched problem determination	Designed to predict SAN network problems before they become severe and impact data and application availability Proactively manages SAN availability
Central management of replication capabilities	Designed to make it easy to keep data on multiple related volumes consistent across storage subsystems Quickly and simply performs freeze-and-go functions with consistency on multiple pairs when an error occurs during a replication operation Reduces downtime of critical applications
IBM HyperSwap® for open systems	Reduces downtime through continuous availability of open system servers Minimal impact during outages