IBM System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC)
SSPC helps provide extended device configuration capabilities for heterogeneous devices while also consolidating management to a centralized platform. The pre-installed software is designed to allow you to manage a storage system in context of the environment.The IBM System Storage Productivity Center includes the following pre-installed (separately purchased) software:
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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Basic Edition |
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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (CIM Agent and GUI) |
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Basic Edition
Productivity Center Basic Edition is the newest addition to the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center suite, focused on providing basic device management services for IBM TotalStorage DS family of storage systems, IBM SAN Volume Controller and heterogeneous storage environments. Productivity Center Basic Edition provides:
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Discovery and configuration of supported devices |
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Event gathering, error logging, and launch of device element managers |
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Provisioning support, including LUN allocation and assignment |
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Basic Asset and Capacity Reporting |
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A Topology viewer-End to End Storage Topology View and Health Console |
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An simple upgrade path to IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk, Data or Fabric |
IBM TotalStorage Center for Data
A comprehensive capacity management solution for filesystems and application databases. Manage storage utilization from a file and application perspective to help improve efficiency and availability. Designed to uncover duplicate, obsolete, stale, orphaned files and much more. Highlights include:
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Comprehensive reporting enterprise wide |
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Monitoring and alerts |
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Automated capacity provisioning for filesystems |
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk
A comprehensive device management solution designed to help reduce management cost and complexity by consolidating the administration and configuration of your storage devices. This solution is also designed to provide replication and performance monitoring and management - across multiple IBM storage subsystems and SMI-S compliant devices to help you improve availability. Highlights include:
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Management and configuration of SMI-S based storage devices from a single console |
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Performance monitoring and threshold alerts of devices |
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Performance advising for best LUN recommendations. |
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
A comprehensive management solution for multivendor SANs designed to simplify the management of your SAN fabric while improving availability. This solution is enterprise-scalable solution architected to ANSI SAN standards, allowing you to choose "best-of-breed" products for your storage infrastructure. Highlights include:
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Automatic device discovery and topology rendering |
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Zone control |
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Real time monitoring and alerts of SAN components |
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SAN error prediction capabilities. |
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
A replication management product designed to provide copy services management for the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS). It is designed to provide configuration and management of
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FlashCopy capabilities of the ESS |
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Synchronous PPRC capabilities of the ESS |
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition
Productivity Center Standard Edition provides all the management capabilities to better manage your heterogeneous storage infrastructure from application to back-end storage system disk at a single bundled price. Productivity Center Standard Edition consists of:
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