HP Storage Essentials Sybase Viewer -
Overview & Features

Overview

HP Sybase Viewer extends HP Storage Essentials Suite with application-to-spindle management of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). With its powerful capacity, performance, and dependency management capabilities, this integrated Application plug-in helps ensure the availability and performance of Sybase databases and applications in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.

HP Sybase Viewer automatically discovers Sybase databases, devices, and files, and graphically depicts their dependencies on the SAN. The path that each Sybase element takes through mount points, host servers, volume management software, 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 Sybase applications and determine where in the SAN "stack" performance is being impacted. HP Sybase 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 Sybase environments.

Features

• Discovers Sybase database instances, database devices, and database files
• Correlates dependencies on host mount points, volume managers, servers, HBAs, fabric switches, and storage systems

• Renders the storage topology from the perspective of Sybase Database, and shows all of the SAN resources in the Sybase "supply chain" (e.g. Sybase tablespaces, Sybase database files, host mount points, volume management software, host, HBA port, switch port from host, ISLs, switch port to storage system, and storage system volumes and disks).
• Identifies failover and load balancing relationships and redundant paths

• Views on Total Capacity, Total Used, Percent Used, and Available for all Sybase instances, devices, and database files
• "In context" capacity views for all dependent SAN resources (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

• Real-time monitoring of key Sybase counters, including CPU Usage Percentage, Memory Usage Percentage, and Physical I./O Percentage
• 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 Sybase path
• Performance measurement views enable administrators to simultaneously display traffic and utilization charts that monitor individual statistics for every element in the Sybase path
• Historical trending and trend extrapolation of all Sybase and SAN resource counters

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

• 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

• Grant read-only, asset record, and provisioning permissions to different administrators
• Block specific Sybase instances, hosts, switches and arrays from different administrators’ views