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Overview |
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The award winning HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Enterprise Edition Software Suite simplifies heterogeneous (DAS, SAN, and NAS), and physical and virtual host infrastructure management with a comprehensive suite of software and solutions to help IT staff understand visualize and gain control of all their storage and infrastructure assets. The powerful software improves storage utilization, lowers management costs while improving the quality of storage service to optimize application and business processes. Storage Essentials SRM Software uses a rich-set of software integrations including integration with HP Operations Orchestration which automates manual and error prone IT processes with an easy to use workflow, and with HP Universal CMDB (Configuration Management Database), you can perform impact analysis modeling and reporting of requested changes to storage environments with automated change tracking and compliance reporting for storage devices to help optimize business outcomes of IT. Integration with HP System Insight Manager provides unified server and storage management; while integration with HP Service Desk software delivers integrated end-to-end IT services management. Include HP Data Protector and you have a powerful solution to monitor the overall status of the entire backup process as well as visualize backup configuration and recoverability. The architecture is built on industry standards, allowing for quick deployment, with the agility to easily manage, monitor and react to change, and investment protection so you can minimize the costs of adopting, and upgrading storage resources.
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What's new |
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- VMware integration with Storage Essentials SRM Software-Vmware file system to storage spindle logical topology views, capacity utilization reporting on ESX servers, virtual machines and agent and agent less deployment
- HP Storage Essentials integration with HP Operations Orchestration run book automation platform automates error-prone IT management processes by providing an easy to use workflow authoring and execution solution. Storage administrators can automate IT processes-from routine maintenance tasks to complex change operations, by easily creating orchestration workflows that defines the process. The automated workflows ensure the IT processes are executed with zero latencies and errors; they also ensure that the processes are documented, enforceable and auditable. Workflows can be linked together for complete end-to-end automation of all business service tasks and processes.
- HP Universal CMDB offers SAN storage Service Content for the enterprise via integration with HPs award winning Storage Essentials SRM software suite. This integration provides a rich catalog of all heterogeneous storage infrastructure configuration items (CI;s) which are fed into the HP Universal (CMDB). The integration between the HP UCMDB and HP Storage Essentials SRM software augments core configuration item data held with the HP UCMDB with deep configuration information stored in the Storage Essentials database, making this information available to the enterprise applications holding incident and problem information
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Features & Benefits |
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- Discovery and visual topology views of physical and virtual hosts with associated applications, storage and infrastructure: Increases storage utilization on virtual farms, avoids costly outage risks on VM and physical paths and improves root cause analysis efficiency
- Pre-configured flows and operations, drag-and-droppable to create new flows: Ability to automate SRM processes, including end-to-end processes that span multiple IT departments (servers, networks, storage)
- Snapshots: Allows comparing two time-based snapshots of the same selected SAN configuration built-in debugger for test and validation of workflows: IT Operations now have an extended view of the infrastructure that supports critical business services by having access to deep configuration information associated with the overall storage environment
- Improve administrative efficiency, reduce costs and complexity: HP Storage Essentials SRM Software Suite integration with HP System Insight Manager delivers unified server and storage management, improving efficiency via shared services like single sign on, security administration, asset management, reporting, and discovery, licensing, storage resource management and event management.
- Easy software integration increases productivity and manageability: HP Storage Essentials SRM Software suite integration with HP software via Smart Plug-In (SPI) delivers integrated IT Services management in areas like provisioning, operations, reporting and charge back and managing an end-to-end Microsoft exchange and Unix environment when included with HP Operations for Windows or Unix.
- Automation of network discovery for quick access to the right data: Big picture visualization automatically discovers and maps the storage network (DAS, SAN, and NAS), physical and virtual host infrastructure and backup topology by pictorially displaying the objects, path and zones between the application and LUN on which the corresponding data resides.
- Increases business application availability: Monitor and report on business applications including Exchange, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL and Intersystem's Cache, and monitor host cluster configurations including Microsoft Server Cluster and VERITAS Cluster (Solaris) and with infrastructure dependencies to facilitate faster end-to-end root cause analysis.
- End-to-end file and performance management: Monitor end-to-end performance from application objects down to storage subsystems and file identification. Monitors and reports on application, host, HBA, switch, disk subsystem and now HP EVA. Enables quick detections of performance "bottleneck", so service level agreements (SLA) are maintained or exceeded.
- Industry standard based architecture: Designed on the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), industry standard for storage network management based on the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). Enables support for multi-vendor storage infrastructures and ensuring investment protection.
- Customizable Reports: Extensive set of reports can be customized and scheduled for automatic e-mail distribution, satisfying requirements for capacity and performance management, executive dashboards and planning, asset management, and chargeback. Supports a wide variety of reporting formats, including HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, and PDF.
- Unified tool to manage XP arrays, Servers and Infrastructure: Helps IT staff manage heterogeneous SANs, infrastructure and HP XP arrays from a single unified interface. This simplifies management and reduces TCO since traditional device managers like HP Command View XP are usually not required. HP SRM XP Provider software is included with SRM Enterprise Edition Software.
- Integrated NAS and infrastructure Backup Management: Analyze impact of configuration changes and file sharing activities for HP ProLiant Storage Servers, HP Enterprise File System (EFS) Clustered Gateway and Netapps. Monitor overall status of the backup process and recoverability with a single view of backup activities for HP Data Protector and Symantec NetBackup software.
- Efficiently manage, visualize SAN resource allocation and movement for SAP ACC: HP Storage Essentials SRM Application Integration Software for SAP Adaptive Computing Controller (ACC) helps customers with SAP ACC seamlessly move and visualize SAN attached storage and infrastructure resources between physical servers when SAP application services requests more storage. Ideal for SAP test environments.
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