IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select offers comprehensive storage resource management capabilities combining the consolidated benefits of the following three components as one bundle:

• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition

In addition to the benefits and features of Data, Disk and Basic Edition, Productivity Center Select offers additional management, control and performance reporting for the fibre channel SAN infrastructure. Productivity Center Select is designed to:

• License by the number of storage devices managed, and supports IBM Storwize V7000, XIV, DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 as stand-alone devices or when attached to an IBM SAN Volume Controller. Productivity Center Select also supports any storage devices that are attached to Storwize V7000.
• Provide automated device discovery, topology rendering, error detection and fault isolation, SAN error predictor, zone control, monitoring and alerts, and event management for heterogeneous enterprise SAN environments.
• Help simplify the management and improve the availability of the SAN environment.
• Provide automatic device discovery and allow multiple SAN views, including physical, logical and zone views.
• Offer views and analyses of multiple aspects of the storage environment, including capacity, utilization, assets and availability.
• Detect storage events and generate the appropriate alerts to the administrator.
• Provide a number of SAN availability features, including SAN error protector. An autonomic computing capability, SAN error predictor is designed to help predict SAN network problems before they become severe and impact data and application availability. This functionality incorporates predictive failure analysis into the storage network environment, designed to allow administrators to be proactive in managing SAN availability.
• Provide basic diagnostic capabilities to show which resources are impacted by an availability or performance issue in the SAN. Today, it can monitor performance at the port and switch level, and display this information in the common topology viewer for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.