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Business Value
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.
The award winning HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Enterprise Edition Software Suite simplifies enterprise heterogeneous (DAS, SAN, and NAS) management with powerful SRM provisioning, storage metering, customized reporting, business application and backup monitoring, with end to end to performance management. Storage Essentials SRM Software integrates with HP System Insight Manager to provide 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.
HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software enhancements include HP SRM Performance Pack Software, which helps EVA administrators quickly visualize the big performance picture of their entire EVA SAN, auto discovery and monitoring of host clusters increases availability, Intersystem’s Cache database extends SRM benefits to Healthcare and financial industries, greater scalability for larger SANs means your business does not have to wait to grow, HP SRM Backup Manager enhancements improve efficiency and reporting, and SAP ACC integration helps administrators efficiently and dynamically manage and visualize SAN resource allocation and movement in mySAP. If you include HP Operations for Windows/Unix, you have a single management solution that spans Windows and Unix applications, networks, servers, infrastructure and storage. Imagine a single unified interface that puts you in control while improving the overall quality of storage services offered to end users.
What's new
New HP Storage Essentials SRM Performance Pack Software provides a unified and simplified interface which helps IT staff efficiently manage HP EVA performance with a big performance picture of their EVA storage, hosts and SAN infrastructure. HP SRM Performance Pack Software is a new plug in module for the HP SRM Enterprise Edition Software. Combined with SRM Enterprise Edition Performance Manager, the software monitors the complete path of applications through underlying SAN components. Additional benefits include real-time monitoring, historical trend analysis and trend extrapolation to assist in eliminating performance bottlenecks.
Increases business application availability – big picture view monitors business applications, and high availability host cluster configurations with infrastructure dependencies to facilitate faster end-to-end root cause analysis and troubleshooting to aid in the prevention of unplanned downtime. Automatically discover, display and monitor host clusters for Microsoft Cluster Server, Exchange Clusters and VERITAS Clusters.
Easily configure, customize and monitor high-availability host cluster configuration with Storage Essentials SRM Host Cluster Builder Wizard – Simple to use wizard offers the flexibility to manually map a customers unique HA configurations to SRM Enterprise Edition Software’s powerful big picture visualization of all paths and device dependencies.
Enhanced HP SRM Database Viewer expands business application integration with support for InterSystem Cache database. 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.
Greater scalability in larger enterprise heterogeneous SAN configurations all on a single centralized management server. Easily scale from small configurations to very large configurations via a unified interface to manage server, storage and infrastructure. No need to deploy multiple management servers and/or lots of IT staff as your business grows. Management is simplified, costs are reduced while increasing IT efficiency.
Features & Benefits
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) 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.
