HP Storage Essentials
Technical Details

The comprehensive, integrated storage area management capabilities of HP Storage Essentials Suite are supported by a standards-built architecture optimized for enterprise-class scalability, extensibility, and performance. HP's CIMIQ and CIMIQ-X management platforms deliver a common set of Web services and developer toolkits that incorporate SMI-S, CIM, Java, J2EE, XML, and SOAP, and provide a strong foundation for the management applications offered today by HP and in the future by HP and HP partners.

HP solutions, by virtue of our investment in industry standards and our CIMIQ partnerships with storage industry leaders, provide broad and deep support for your heterogeneous IT infrastructure, and protect your investment far into the future. Our solutions are quick and easy to deploy and maintain, with system requirements that minimize impact to your IT operations, reduce your ongoing cost of ownership, and deliver rapid return on your HP investment.

Architecture Details

• J2EE platform manages the infrastructure and supports the Web services that deliver 100% Web-based management.
• J2EE security service integrates with Web server security infrastructure to ensure all code paths are validated, and provides the foundation for the powerful role-based security features that limit levels of access and control (e.g. SAN architect can provision storage resources, a business unit manager can only view reports) and groupings (e.g. Boston administrators can only manage the storage resources in the Boston group).
• Separate schemas for data collection (CIM) and data processing and the ability to separate StorageAuthority management solutions from the included Oracle database enable superior performance and history tracking.
• J2EE messaging service provides full-featured calendaring and scheduling for data collection; monitoring; database roll up and cleanup; reports; and e-mailing of reports, and allow sub-components to be chained, scheduled and monitored.
• Embedded policy engine provides Event Condition Action (ECA) capabilities; templates for easy definition; device context-based rules; and XML support for extensibility. The policy engine supports multiple conditions (AND, OR, NOT); device-specific and generic rules; re-arm periods; multiple actions (send event, send e-mail, execute CLI or script); and triggers including threshold events, provisioning operations, and device or application-specific notifications.
• Multiple external interfaces include:
  

  •	Web User Interface - Run multiple browser sessions anytime, anywhere to access all HP capabilities through scalable Service Beans;
  •	External API - Exports a majority of Service Bean capabilities through SOAP and Java interfaces for greater extensibility and enterprise data center integration;
  •	CLI - Based on HP's Java APIs, the CLI supports a majority of the capabilities available through the user interface, and is ideal for quickly adding features using any scripting or programming languages.