ge area network (SAN) manage -
ment, storage resource management, provisioning,
backup reporting, usage metering and application
management. It includes a management console and
portfolio of valued-added modules, which share the same
web services architecture for simplified management.
HP Storage Essentials Suite integrates into HP unified
server-storage management platform and HP Systems
Insight Manager, as well as HP OpenView Operations.
It increases administrator efficiency via automation,
visualization and simplification to enhance manage -
ment of storage growth and increased utilization to
reduce your storage costs.
Features and benefits
VisualizationAutomatically discovers and maps the
storage network topology and pictorially displays
objects, paths and zones between an application and
the LUN on which the corresponding data resides.
ReportingAn extensive library of reports satisfy
requirements related to capacity management and
planning, performance management, asset manage -
ment and chargeback. Reports can be customized
and scheduled for automatic e-mail distribution.
Zoning and provisioningEnables end-to-end zoning
and provisioning tasks at the host, switch and disk
subsystem layers. Provides a common interface for a
multi-vendor storage environment.
Capacity managementMonitors availability and
utilization at host, switch and array. Historical trends
are extrapolated to forecast future capacity demands
and identify areas that are under-utilized.
NAS managementProvides comprehensive Network
Attached Storage (NAS) management capabilities for
HP ProLiant Storage Server (NAS) and NetApp
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network storage solutions. Lets you visualize your
distributed NAS solutions while unifying SAN and
NAS management.
Application viewersThese allow you to monitor the
capacity and performance of SQL and Sybase
databases so that you can anticipate and pinpoint
the root causes of capacity, performance and
availability problems.
Backup management and reportingExtends HP
Storage Essentials Suite with powerful backup resource
management and reporting, ensuring health and
performance of your data protection infrastructure.
Reports on statistics such as backup resources,
success/failure, SLAs, backup volume, job size and
client history. Supports HP OpenView Data Protector
and Veritas Netbackup applications.
Standards-based architectureThese solutions are
designed on the Storage Management Initiative
Specification (SMI-S), the storage industry standard
for heterogeneous storage network management
based on the Common Information Model (CIM) and
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). The
implementation of these standards helps enable
support for multi-vendor storage infrastructures and
protects investments in both management solutions
and storage hardware.
HP Storage Essentials Suite is storage management
software for open, heterogeneous, multi-vendor network
storage that discovers and graphically visualizes storage
in an intuitive, easy format. It monitors performance in
real time, automates tasks, simplifies procedures and
processes, generates reports when you need them and
lowers the costs of your enterprise storage investment.
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HP Storage Essentials
Enterprise Edition
HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition is ideal for
medium to large enterprise storage area networks
(SANs). Its the main console for open, heterogeneous
and multi-vendor SAN management, and is the base
product required for all other HP Storage Essentials
modules. HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition:
Is a simple-to-use single management interface that
helps you understand, control, plan and manage
infra struc ture for direct-attached and network-
attached storage. Acting as a central management
console, it provides storage network status and event
monitoring through an easy-to-read topology map
that displays devices and the physical and redundant
connections between those devices.
Allows switch-controlled zones to be automatically
discovered and mapped, enabling the storage
administrator to monitor from a single pane of glass.
Provides basic array LUN creation, modification and
deletion capabilities.
Provides capacity management to display a complete
inventory of your storage, with a centralized view of
who is using how much capacity shown by storage
device and LUN.
Key features
Provides unified server and storage management.
Provides inventory for the amount of storage on a
device or assigned to a host.
Graphically displays and monitors your entire SAN
infrastructure with a simplified integrated toolset.
Provides graphical trending.
Leverages usage data to forecast future demand.
Provides an automatic capacity-threshold warning
system that enables identification of potential capacity
bottlenecks before they become an issue.
Key benefits
Supports the following capabilities:
Plan for capacity growth based on forecasts and
future trends.
Perform just-in-time purchase of additional
capacityhence capacity does not lie around
unused once purchaseddecreasing total cost of
ownership.
Capacity thresholds automatically warn administrators
about host or storage devices running out of capacity
to help meet service level agreements (SLAs).
Sends annotated events to OpenView Operation.
HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition
Provides graphical trending
Automatic capacity-threshold
warning system
Leverages usage data to forecast
future demand
Sends annotated events to
OpenView Operations
Enables identification of
potential capacity bottlenecks
Provides inventory for the
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Provisioning Manager
Provisioning Manager is an optional plug-in that
extends the HP Storage Essentials Suite with device-
specific and guided path provisioning of SAN resources.
By providing a single, intelligent interface from which
you can provision heterogeneous storage systems and
fabric switches, the Provisioning Manager accelerates
and attempts to error-proof your ability to allocate
storage in support of business initiatives.
HP Storage Essentials Provisioning Manager provides
a centralized interface/wizard for allocating and
managing the pools, volumes, LUNs, zones and zone
sets in your SAN, helping to reduce the inefficiencies
and errors that often occur when using device-specific
tools. The modules Path Provisioning feature takes
advantage of the suites auto-discovery, dependency
management and capacity management capabilities
to offer templates that escort you step-by-step through
provisioning operations. Using the built-in job queue
and scheduler, you can quickly create hundreds of
provisioning jobs and set them up to run during off
hours to reduce business impact. This module eliminates
the needs to launch device managers for LUN carving,
modification and deletion. It also eliminates the need
to launch FC switch device management tools for zone
configuration setup and ongoing changes.
The Path Provisioning interface guides you end-to-end
through the selection of storage system, host, volume,
LUN and zone, and includes a job queue and
scheduler for rapid job creation. Individual fabric
switches and storage systems can be provisioned in
context directly from the topology or from anywhere
else in the HP Storage Essential Suite where the
devices appear.
Key features
End-to-end, path provisioning interface
Rules and filtering technology
Job queue and scheduler with built-in calendar
Device-specific and wizard-based provisioning
Role-based security
CIM-built, J2EE architecture
Key benefits
Has a centralized interface for allocating and
managing the pools, volumes, LUNs, zones and zone
sets in the SAN.
Reduces the amount of time it takes to provision SAN
resources in support of business applications.
Improves quality of service delivered to business units.
Lowers training costs and ongoing total cost of
ownership (TCO).
Reduces common errors that occur when using many
multi-vendor device-specific tools for provisioning.
SAN implementation can be consistent with architecture.
Increases application availability by ensuring dual
paths across the SAN infrastructure.
Increases efficiency of storage administrators.
Responds faster to device-specific issues.
Vastly improves SAN security.
Decreases deployment risk.
HP Storage EssentialsProvisioning Manager
End-to-end, path provisioning
interface
Device-specific and wizard-
based provisioning
SAN implementation is
consistent with architecture
Respond faster to device-
specific issues
Create internal storage unity
Reduce deployment risk
Increase efficiency of storage
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File System Viewer
The File System Viewer is an optional plug-in that extends
HP Storage Essentials Suite with scalable, file-level storage
resource management (SRM) capabilities. Whether your
file servers are hosted on direct-attached storage (DAS),
network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area
networks (SAN), the File System Viewer provides the
file system scanning, analysis and reporting features
you need to reclaim wasted disk space, verify file
server availability, monitor user consumption and
classify unstructured data for ILM initiatives.
The File System Viewer automatically discovers your
file systems, logical volumes and user shares, and
conducts high performance scans to collect age, size
and type statistics on every file. Detailed reports
categorize files according to file extensions (including
.mp3, .log, .tmp, .pst) and s