IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition is one of the industry’s most comprehensive storage resource management solutions combining the consolidated benefits of the following three components as one bundle at a reduced price:

• 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 Standard Edition offers additional management, control and performance reporting for the fibre channel SAN infrastructure. These features include the following benefits:

• 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.
• Integration with Productivity Center for Replication to provide a single control for both replication and storage functions. Storage replication can now be planned for when it is initially provisioned.
• Automated end to end provisioning capability that enables administrators to provision storage in a wizard driven approach with recommendations based on the storage system’s past performance.
• Help simplify the management and improve the availability of the SAN environment.
• Automatic device discovery and allow multiple SAN views, including physical, logical and zone views.
• View and analyze multiple aspects of the storage environment, including capacity, utilization, assets and availability.
• 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.
• 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.