Storage Management

Solution Description

Regardless of the industry, today’s global operations and business applications demand rapid response times and premier service levels 24/7. Storage managers are being overtaxed by greater volumes of information distributed across different platforms and across many levels — from the application through the SAN and to the storage system. Factor in additional challenges such as shortage of IT resources, capacity planning and business continuity, and storage management costs and these managers will find they are in need of better storage management solutions to help them realize a real return on investment.

The Hitachi Storage Command Suite provides just that. With Hitachi software modules as the cornerstone, the Hitachi Storage Command Suite combines openness and standards compliance with software tools that meet today’s business needs. These modules automate otherwise manually intensive tasks, provide views into the inter-relationships between applications and their associated storage infrastructure and allows system administrators to use a single management application to support multivendor SAN environments.

The Hitachi Storage Command Suite provides a clear view of the complex relationships among applications, servers, storage networks and storage devices in Fibre Channel SANs. Control capabilities include an innovative automated end-to-end tool for deploying new storage capacity for a number of popular storage systems with an excellent single view.

Value Proposition and Benefits

• Reduce the number of point tools that must be mastered for storage management.
• Apply tiered storage based on application requirements.
• Increase staff efficiencies and automation.
• Manage the increasing capacity without increasing head count.
• Make smart purchasing decisions on software management infrastructure before choosing the next storage system.
• Optimize usage of storage resources.
• Effectively respond to changes driven by the business units.
• Introduce tools to measures and then meet/exceed service level agreements (SLAs).
• Identify issues before they become problems.
• Ensure application availability.
• Achieve total compliance with SNMP and gain the ability to feed data to SNMP application like Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)

Solution Diagram

Solution Offers

Hitachi Storage Command Suite

• QoS Application Module
• QoS for File Servers (SRM)
• Chargeback
• Path Provisioning
• Global Reporter
• Storage Service Manager
• Backup Service Manager
• QoS for Microsoft Exchange
• QoS for Microsoft SQL Server

Customized Implementation Service

• Tailoring and integration of storage
• management solution
• Project management
• Design activities
• Tailored implementation
• Testing
• Knowledge transfer
• Data setup
• Reporting
• Data extraction
• Analysis and recommendations