IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre (TPC) Suite

IBM TPC Basic Edition

As a component of the IBM TPC, IBM TPC Limited Edition is focused on providing basic device discovery and asset management services for IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, DS6000 & DS8000 products, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in addition to select IBM tape libraries and heterogeneous storage environments.

TPC Basic Edition provides storage administrators a simple way to conduct device management for multiple storage arrays and Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric components from a single integrated console that also is the base of operations for the IBM TPC suite.

Productivity Centre Basic Edition is designed to help you:

• Discover and configure IBM and heterogeneous Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) supported devices
• Perform event gathering, error logging and launch device element managers
• Provide basic asset and capacity reporting
• Provisioning support including Logical Unit Number (LUN) allocation and assignment
• Display an end-to-end topology view of your storage infrastructure and health console
• Enable a simple upgrade path to IBM TPC Standard Edition (or single priced modules).

IBM TPC Basic Edition is a management option offered with IBM midrange and high-end storage systems. This tool provides storage administrators with a simple way to conduct device management for multiple storage arrays and SAN fabric components from a single integrated console that also is the base of operations for the IBM TPC suite. The features of Basic Edition are also included within:

• IBM TPC for Data
• IBM TPC for Disk
• IBM TPC for Replication.

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 TPC Suite is designed to:

• Help centralise the management of your storage infrastructure from a single interface using role-based administration and single sign-on
• Provide a single management application with modular integrated components that are easy to install and provide common services for simple/consistent configuration and consistent operations across host, fabric and storage systems
• Manage performance and connectivity from the host file system to the physical disk, including in-depth performance monitoring and analysis on Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric performance.
• 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 SMI-S compliant storage devices
• Manage advanced replication services (Global Mirror, Metro Mirror and FlashCopy).

IBM TPC can help you manage the capacity utilisation of storage systems, file systems and databases and automate file-system capacity provisioning, perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface, tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the SAN and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.