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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre (TPC) Suite

Simplify, automate, and optimise storage infrastructure

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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.

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Feature Benefits
Central console and topology viewer
  • Designed to increase the efficiency of storage administrators by reducing the number of tools required to manage the storage infrastructure
Manage IBM System Storage and other storage devices with a single suite
  • Extensive operational control, asset and capacity management, and performance reporting for the latest IBM storage devices
  • Manage your heterogeneous infrastructure through compliance with Storage Networking Industry Association's SMI-S Versions 1.0.2 and 1.1 (or later)
Comprehensive enterprise reporting of all key storage infrastructure parameters
  • View and understand performance, capacity, utilisation and availability metrics for your entire storage infrastructure from a single interface
  • Set and receive alerts for threshold levels on a wide range of performance parameters
Storage Resource Agents
  • Asset data and capacity data collection from servers without resident agents
  • Improves performance and supports end to end (E2E) provisioning, thus significantly improving time to value.
Integrated Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning
  • Improves time to value – allows planning for replication when the storage is provisioned
Complete provisioning
  • Increased efficiency and flexibility
  • Schedule the provisioning task during change control window or execute immediately
Chargeback in cloud storage environments
  • Manage your storage as a service to help your storage infrastructure provide value to your business
  • Advanced multicustomer support features enable organisations to charge in different currencies and to charge different rates for the same service
Automatic SAN device discovery
  • Automate management of SAN infrastructure
  • Simplify the analysis of multiple aspects of the storage environment, including capacity, utilisation, assets and availability
Enriched problem determination
  • Designed to predict SAN network problems before they become severe and impact data and application availability
  • Proactively manage SAN availability
Central management of replication capabilities
  • Designed to make it easy to keep data on multiple related volumes consistent across storage subsystems
  • Quickly and simply perform freeze-and-go functions with consistency on multiple pairs when an error occurs during a replication operation
  • Reduced downtime of critical applications
IBM HyperSwap for open systems
  • Reduced downtime through continuous availability of open system servers
  • Minimal impact during outages
Storage tiering reports
  • In virtualised SAN Volume Control (SVC) and IBM Storwize V7000 environments, storage tiering reports help identify the hottest and coolest Managed Disk Groups and Virtual Disks based on performance, to assist in up tiering, down tiering and retiering decisions

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