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A unified and award winning SRM software suite for heterogeneous storage, that increases staff efficiency, automates and simplifies tasks, and lowers SAN costs better than traditional manual methods.
What is new with the latest release of HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Enterprise Edition Software?
A1.
Several product enhancements are available with the HP Storage Essentials SRM Enterprise Edition Software 6.0 release. Key product enhancements include a new value add plug, HP SRM Performance Pack Software for end-to-end performance monitoring of the HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), automatic discovery of host clusters monitoring and reporting for Microsoft Server Cluster, Exchange clusters and VERITAS cluster, a new HP SRM Host Cluster Builder wizard allows administrators to configure and customize their own unique host cluster configurations, more scalability in very large enterprise heterogeneous SAN configurations, SRM Backup Manager, and SRM File System Viewer enhancements, a simplified installation wizard and more.
Q2.
How does the new HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software benefit the HP Enterprise Virtual Array?
A2.
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). The HP SRM Performance Pack Software is available as a value-add plug in to HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software, and is licensed on a per HP EVA (Array) basis. 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.
Q3.
What host clusters does HP SRM Enterprise Edition Support and what is unique about the Storage Essentials SRM Cluster Builder Wizard?
A3.
HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software can monitor, discover, visualize and report on Microsoft Cluster Server and Exchange Clusters and VERITAS Clusters (Solaris). The unique and new SRM Cluster Builder Wizard allows IT Staff to customize and manually create/edit cluster relationships and build a clustered host configuration per the customers unique requirements, and define nodes within the cluster. Storage Essentials SRM Enterprise Edition Software big picture view monitors business applications, and high availability host cluster configurations with infrastructure dependencies to facilitate faster root cause analysis, increase availability and reduces the risk of unplanned downtime.
Q4.
Tell me about the new Intersystem’s Cache database support with the HP Storage Essentials SRM Database Viewer?
A4.
The ability to discover, visualize and monitor business applications, infrastructure, and storage down to the spindle is a strong differentiator for Storage Essentials SRM Software. Now we added Intersystem’s Cache to our consolidated HP SRM Database Viewer Software. From a single unified interface, you can manage Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase and now Cache database. The HP SRM Database Viewer now supports Cache, a relational database, which is used around the world for a variety of applications ranging from single user embedded systems to enterprise wide multi-server installations with tens of thousands of concurrent users. Industry applications of Cache include healthcare, financial services and telecommunications. A Microsoft Exchange Viewer is also available as a plug in to the SRM Storage Essentials Software Suite.
