The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite of storage infrastructure management tools can help customers reduce the complexity of managing their storage environments by centralizing, simplifying and automating storage tasks associated with storage systems, storage networks, replication services and capacity management.
IBM 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.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition consists of:
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite of products includes:
to perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface, tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the Storage Area Network (SAN)
to control and monitor copy services operations (like FlashCopy®, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror capabilities) and use data replication for data protection and disaster recovery
Highlights
The IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center Suite is designed to:
Help centralize the management of your storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on
Provide a single management application with modular integrated components that are easy to install and provide common services for simple/consistent 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 on SAN fabric performance
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 the capacity utilization of storage systems, file systems and databases and automate file-system capacity provisioning, perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface, tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the Storage Area Network (SAN) and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric