Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Suite

Components and Packages

he IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center offering is comprised of:

• IBM System Storage Productivity Center
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition

IBM System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC)

SSPC helps provide extended device configuration capabilities for heterogeneous devices while also consolidating management to a centralized platform. The pre-installed software is designed to allow you to manage a storage system in context of the environment.

The IBM System Storage Productivity Center includes the following pre-installed (separately purchased) software:

• bk-bullet.gif IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
• bk-bullet.gif IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (CIM Agent and GUI)

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition

Productivity Center Basic Edition is the newest addition to the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite, focused on providing basic device management services for IBM TotalStorage DS family of storage systems, IBM SAN Volume Controller and heterogeneous storage environments.

Productivity Center Basic Edition provides:

• bk-bullet.gif Discovery and configuration of supported devices
• bk-bullet.gif Event gathering, error logging, and launch of device element managers
• bk-bullet.gif Provisioning support, including LUN allocation and assignment
• bk-bullet.gif Basic Asset and Capacity Reporting
• bk-bullet.gif A Topology viewer-End to End Storage Topology View and Health Console
• bk-bullet.gif An simple upgrade path to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk, Data or Fabric

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data

A comprehensive capacity management solution for filesystems and application databases. Manage storage utilization from a file and application perspective to help improve efficiency and availability. Designed to uncover duplicate, obsolete, stale, orphaned files and much more.

Highlights include:

• bk-bullet.gif Comprehensive reporting enterprise wide
• bk-bullet.gif Monitoring and alerts
• bk-bullet.gif Automated capacity provisioning for filesystems

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk

A comprehensive device management solution designed to help reduce management cost and complexity by consolidating the administration and configuration of your storage devices. This solution is also designed to provide replication and performance monitoring and management - across multiple IBM storage subsystems and SMI-S compliant devices to help you improve availability.

Highlights include:

• bk-bullet.gif Management and configuration of SMI-S based storage devices from a single console
• bk-bullet.gif Performance monitoring and threshold alerts of devices
• bk-bullet.gif Performance advising for best LUN recommendations.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication

A replication management product designed to provide copy services management for the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS). It is designed to provide configuration and management of

• bk-bullet.gif FlashCopy capabilities of the ESS
• bk-bullet.gif Synchronous PPRC capabilities of the ESS

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition

Productivity Center Standard Edition provides all the management capabilities to better manage your heterogeneous storage infrastructure from application to back-end storage system disk at a single bundled price.

Productivity Center Standard Edition consists of:

• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
• IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk

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