HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager -
Overview & Features

Overview

HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager automatically discovers your NAS Manager storage resources, collects a wide range of NAS Manager capacity, performance, and configuration details, and graphically maps your integrated SAN and NAS topology. IP network connections to NAS clients, as well as fibre channel connections to fabric switches and storage systems for cases where NAS Manager filers are serving as NAS gateways, are represented in a single, unified view.

Powerful path and dependency management capabilities enable you to quickly predict the impact of NAS Manager events on your business, while the real-time performance monitoring and current and historical capacity management features enable you to maximize performance and utilization. HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager also extends the full range of role-based security, reporting, and policy-based automation capabilities of HP Storage Essentials to your NAS Manager storage resources.

Features

Broad and deep NAS Manager support

• Integrates with Data ONTAP™, NAS Manager's highly optimized, scalable, and flexible operating system, to extend the full range of NAS management capabilities to all NAS Manager primary, midline, and gateway network storage solutions.

NAS Manager device discovery and metadata collection

• Discovers all NAS Manager resources and asset information
• Makes NAS Manager asset and configuration information available through SMI-S diagrams to simplify navigation and management
• Collects and displays Model, IP Address, Operating System, Version, Memory, Processors, DNS Name, Network Card, IP Ports, Shares (Name, Share Type, Mount Point), Storage Volumes (Name, Drive Type, File System Type, Capacity), Partitions, Disk Drives, Host Bus Adapters (WWN, Vendor, Model, Serial Number), HBA Ports (WWN, Speed), Bindings, and more

Topology visualization with path and dependency management

• Maps NAS Manager resources in the context of the IP network, and shows connections between NAS Manager clients (hosts) and individual NAS Manager devices and file systems
• Maps NAS Manager resources as part of the Storage Area Network (SAN), and shows connections between NAS Manager devices and fibre channel fabric switches and storage systems for gateway (NAS head) configurations
• Show Impact tool highlights all NAS clients that would be affected if a selected NAS Manager device becomes unavailable
• Scaling and Panning Window tools enable you to zoom in or zoom out and rapidly navigate large NAS environments
• Drag Nodes tool enables you to drag-and-drop NAS Manager devices to create and save custom topology views

Capacity management and planning

• Total, Used, and Available capacity are presented for all NAS Manager devices and file systems
• Unmounted File System capacity helps ensure existing NAS Manager devices are fully utilized
• Historical charts with customizable start and end dates; hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots; and trend extrapolation provide ensure accurate for capacity planning

Performance monitoring and trending

• Monitors real-time, historical, and trended performance and utilization statistics for NAS Manager devices
• IP Ports counters include:
   
  • Packets Received
  • Packets Sent
  • Bytes Received
  • Bytes Sent
   
• File System counters include:
   
  • Total Inodes
  • Reserved Inodes
  • Used Inodes
   
• CPU counters include:
   
  • CPU Utilization
  • Cache Hit Ratio
  • Name Cache Hits/Misses
  • Inode Cache Hits/Misses
  • Buffer Cache Hits/Misses
  • Total Busy Time
  • Total Busy and Idle Time

Reports

• Adds new NAS Manager capacity, utilization, and asset configuration reports to the standard Storage Essentials reports
• Exports reports to PDF, XML, Excel, and HTML formats
• Provides auto-email schedules to send reports to IT and line of business managers
• Create an unlimited number of new custom reports for your NAS Manager environment using the HP Report Designer plug-in

Event and policy engines

• Collects NAS Manager events in the Event Manager
• Free Space and Percentage Storage Used triggers can be set for all NAS Manager devices
• Policy actions include send email, generate SNMP traps, or run custom scripts or programs

Role-based security and organizational groupings

• Grants fine-grained control over NAS Manager storage operations to different administrators
• Blocks specific NAS Manager devices from different administrators' views