IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Suite

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite of storage infrastructure management tools can help you improve time to value, as well as reduce the complexity of managing your storage environments by centralizing, simplifying, automating and optimizing storage tasks associated with storage systems, storage networks, replication services and capacity management.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition is a single integrated solution designed to help you improve your storage TCO and ROI by combining the assets, capacity, performance and operational management, traditionally offered by separate Storage Resource Management, SAN Management and Device Management applications, into a single platform.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center family of products includes:

• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Two-site BC
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Three-site BC
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for System z®

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.

Highlights

The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is designed to:

• Provide comprehensive visibility and help centralize the management of your heterogeneous storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on
• Deliver common services for simple configuration and consistent operations across host, fabric and storage systems
• Manage performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in-depth performance monitoring and analysis of SAN fabric
• Support your virtualization initiatives by providing insights into data usage that will help to dynamically move data across alternate tiers of storage
• Manage the capacity utilization and availability of storage systems, file systems and databases
• Monitor, manage and control (zone) SAN fabric components
• Automate capacity provisioning of file systems
• Monitor and track the performance of SAN-attached SMI-S compliant storage devices
• Manage advanced replication services (Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and FlashCopy®)

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can help you manage performance, availability and capacity utilization of storage systems, file systems and databases. It can help automate file-system capacity provisioning and perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface. It can tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the Storage Area Network (SAN) and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.