IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre

Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre 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 centralising, simplifying, automating and optimising storage tasks associated with storage systems, storage networks, replication services and capacity management.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre Standard Edition is a single integrated solution designed to help you improve your storage total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) by combining the assets, capacity, performance and operational management, traditionally offered by separate Storage Resource Management, Storage Area Network (SAN) Management and Device Management applications, into a single platform.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre family of products includes:

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

Details about integration and interoperability, including device support, database support, server hardware requirements and operating system 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 Centre is designed to:

• Provides comprehensive visibility and help centralise the management of your heterogeneous storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on
• Delivers common services for simple configuration and consistent operations across host, fabric and storage systems
• Manages performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in-depth performance monitoring and analysis of Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric
• Supports your virtualisation initiatives by providing insights into data usage that will help to dynamically move data across alternate tiers of storage.
• Manage the capacity utilisation 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 Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) compliant storage devices
• Manage advanced replication services (Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and FlashCopy).

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre can help you manage performance, availability and capacity utilisation 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 SAN and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.