HP Storage Essentials Exchange
Viewer - Overview & Features

Overview

HP Exchange Viewer extends HP Storage Essentials Suite with application-to-spindle management of Microsoft Exchange Server. With its powerful capacity, performance, and dependency management capabilities, HP Exchange Viewer helps ensure the availability and performance of Exchange messaging and collaboration services in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.

HP Exchange Viewer automatically discovers Exchange Server instances, storage groups, and message stores and graphically depicts their dependencies on the SAN. The path that each Exchange resource takes through host mount points, volume management software, Windows hosts, HBAs, fabric switches, and storage systems is represented in a single, integrated view. These powerful path management capabilities, combined with real-time performance monitoring features, enable you to predict the impact of planned and unplanned SAN downtime on your messaging environment, and determine where in the SAN "stack" performance is being impacted. HP Exchange Viewer also extends the full range of capacity management, role-based security, event management, reporting, and policy-based automation capabilities of HP Storage Essentials Suite to Exchange Server environments.

Features

Resource discovery and SAN dependency management

• Discovers Exchange Server instances, message stores, public folders, and storage groups
• Correlates dependencies on host mount points, volume managers, Windows hosts, HBAs, fabric switches, and storage systems

Application Explorer with topology visualization

• Renders the storage topology from the perspective of Exchange Server and graphically maps all of the SAN resources in the Exchange "supply chain" (e.g. Exchange message stores and storage groups, mount points, volume managers, Windows hosts, HBA port, switch port from host, ISLs, switch port to storage system, storage system volumes and disks).
• Identifies failover and load balancing relationships and redundant paths

Capacity management and planning

• View Total Capacity, Total Used, Percent Used, and Available for all Exchange Server instances and storage groups
• "In context" capacity views for all dependent SAN resources (Windows host servers, fabric switches, storage systems)
• Historical trend charts with customizable start and end dates and hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots
• Trend extrapolation for capacity planning

Performance monitoring with SmartGuideTM technology

• Real-time monitoring of key application server, storage group, and message store counters, including SMTP Local Delivery Queue Size; Messages Awaiting Directory Lookup Queue Size; Messages to be Routed Queue Size; Final Destination Currently Unreachable Queue Size; Pre-submission Queue Size; SMTP Server Queues Summary; Active Client Logons; Average Delivery Time; Receive Queue Size; and Send Queue Size
• Real-time monitoring of dependent SAN resources; SmartGuide technology filters out hosts, HBA ports, switch ports, and storage system ports that are not relevant to the selected Exchange path
• Performance measurement views enable administrators to simultaneously display traffic and utilization charts that monitor individual statistics for every element in the Exchange path
• Historical trending and trend extrapolation of all Exchange and SAN resource counters

Reports

• Out-of-the-box and customizable reports on Exchange and SAN elements
• Export to PDF, XML, Excel, HTML
• Built-in auto-email and e-mail scheduling functions

Event and policy management

• Free Space and Percentage Storage Used triggers for all Sybase instances to proactively avoid out-of-space problems
• Actions for sending email, generating events, or running custom scripts or programs

Role-based Security and Organizational Groupings

• Grant fine-grained control over Exchange storage operations to different administrators
• Block specific Exchange instances, hosts, switches and arrays from different administrators' views

Chargeback and asset management

• Staff, geographic, license, and warranty asset records
• Storage and consumption-based chargeback

CIM-built architecture

• No additional agents added to your Exchange Server hosts to minimize CPU and network impact
• CIM/WBEM data model and schema