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What is new with the latest release of HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Standard Edition Software? |
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Several product enhancements applied as a result of sharing a common architecture with HP Storage Essentials SRM Suite Software. The key product enhancements directly applied to SRM Standard Edition Software are performance monitoring for the HP Enterprise Virtual Array, Microsoft host cluster discovery, monitoring, and reporting, a new host cluster wizard to manually configure host cluster not automatically discovered by Storage Essentials SRM software, and an upgrade from SRM Storage Essentials to the Storage Essentials SRM Software Suite. The upgrade allows mid-market businesses with HP SRM Standard Edition the ability to upgrade and migrate to enterprise heterogeneous SANs; therefore midsize companies can easily incorporate enterprise SRM solutions in their plans. |
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| Q2. |
How will the new HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software benefit HP Enterprise Virtual Array? |
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HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Manager which is part of HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software and the new HP SRM Performance Pack Software monitors the complete path of business applications through underlying storage area networks (SAN) components, including: Business application, Host server, Host bus adapter (HBA), Fabric switch and now HP EVA providing (real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis and trend extrapolation). HP SRM Standard Edition Software licensing includes support to monitor up to 3 HP EVAs. The powerful software allows a user to Monitor the performance of a complete business application path down to the EVA spindle for faster end-to-end troubleshooting when bottlenecks occur. |
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| Q3. |
If I purchased HP SRM Standard Edition Software before the HP SRM Performance Pack Software is available, am I entitled to the software without charge? |
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Customers who purchased HP SRM Standard Edition Software, and have a valid HP Support contract, they are entitled to monitor up to 3 HP EVAs. Just follow your normal HP software update process to receive the latest software version of SRM Standard Edition Software 6.0. |
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| Q4. |
What host clusters does HP SRM Standard Edition support and what is unique about the Storage Essentials SRM Cluster Builder Wizard? |
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HP SRM Standard Edition Software can monitor, discover, visualize and report on Microsoft Cluster Server and Exchange Clusters while the SRM Cluster Builder Wizard allows IT Staff to customize and manually create/edit cluster relationships, build a clustered host and define nodes within the cluster. |
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| Q5. |
What about the HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard Edition to SRM Enterprise Edition upgrade? |
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A significant advantage of HP’s Unified Infrastructure offering is the ability to help IT staff unify the management of their server and storage infrastructure, optimize the planning and execution of change and automate IT service and asset management for midsize business that have limited IT staff and budgets. As these companies grow they need to incorporate enterprise products and services into there plans. This process is simplified for HP SRM Standard Edition software can easily upgrade and be migrated to an enterprise heterogeneous scaleable class SRM solution. This opens the door to a richer set of heterogeneous functionality including provisioning, capacity metering and advanced reporting software to name a few. Ultimately the customer’s investment is protected and training is simplified using familiar interfaces, tools and services. |
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