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HP Storage Essentials Software Suite

The industry award winning HP Storage Essentials SRM Software is the first open, standards-based suite of storage products designed to integrate into HP's unified server-storage management platform, HP Systems Insight Manager.

HP Storage Essentials suite is an open, integrated family of SAN management and storage resource management solutions for heterogeneous networked storage that enables you to simply manage, discover and visualize IT resources, discover, monitor, report on, provision, meter capacity, backup reporting and configure your multi-vendor storage environment through a single, Web-based enterprise console.

HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition (SEEE) Software serves as the base management console for the suite. The software takes advantage of the latest in industry standards such as SMI-S, WBEM, WMI, JBOS and J2EE. This ensures our solution is extensible and will support the insertion of 3rd party, partner technology content.

SEEE provides:  auto-discovery of applications, hosts, HBAs, switches, and storage systems; topology visualization; dependency and path management; end-to-end capacity and performance management with historical and future trending; event management; policy-based automation; and role-based security. Built-in Advisors and Automators simplify time-consuming tasks such as managing worldwide names when replacing HBAs; identifying out of date switch and HBA firmware; and locating array volumes that can be reached by hosts that are running low on capacity. Storage Essentials Enterprise Editions includes over 150 pre-configured reports enabling the user to report on items such as assets, chargeback and file systems and utilization.

Optional value add Software plug-ins for Storage Essentials

  • HP Storage Essentials Provisioning Manager Software accelerates IT's ability to bring new revenue-generating projects and applications on-line and expand the capacity of existing applications by providing interactive and guided path provisioning of heterogeneous storage systems and fabric switches. The software extends HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition with device-specific and guided path provisioning of storage area network (SAN) resources.
  • HP Storage Essentials Oracle/Exchange/SQL/Sybase Software Viewers Monitor the capacity and performance of Oracle, Exchange, SQL and Sybase Databases. For example, in an Oracle database you can monitor instances and table spaces, and traces Oracle application paths through the underlying SAN infrastructure, enabling you to anticipate and pinpoint the root causes of capacity, performance, and availability problems. The software extends HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition with application-to-spindle infrastructure dependencies for your database environment. With its powerful capacity, performance, fault management and filtered topology views - database infrastructure dependency management is simplified ensuring your enterprise databases are meeting your availability and performance objectives.
  • HP Storage Essentials File System Viewer Software Provides high performance, highly scalable file-level scanning, analysis, reporting, and policy-based management capabilities to reclaim wasted disk space, respond faster to file server out-of-space conditions, and classify unstructured data in support of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) initiatives. Whether your file servers are hosted on direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), or storage area networks (SAN), the File System Viewer provides the file system scanning, analysis, and reporting features you need to reclaim wasted disk space, ensure file server availability, monitor user consumption, and classify unstructured data for ILM initiatives.
  • HP Storage Essentials Chargeback Manager Software extends HP Storage Essentials Software Suite with asset management and accounting capabilities that enable you to associate storage infrastructure costs with business initiatives. Whether you are a service provider offering storage services to external customers, or an internal IT organization building a tiered storage utility for your lines of business, the Chargeback Manager accelerates and error-proofs your ability to meter utilization, control storage costs, increase revenue, and differentiate your service offering to better meet customer demands.
  • HP Storage Essentials Global Reporter Software rolls up key statistics from multiple HP management servers to give you enterprise-wide control over distributed data center operations. The software acts as a monitor of monitors and takes advantage of its flexible Aggregator/Satellite design to meet all of your consolidated reporting needs. The software's powerful rollup reporting capabilities provide aggregated views of distributed data center storage. Designed for enterprises that implement multiple instances of the HP Storage Essentials, the module summarizes key storage statistics from the different elements in your storage infrastructure so you can more efficiently manage enterprise-wide storage operations, and implement strategic IT initiatives such as capacity planning and data center consolidation.
  • HP Storage Essentials Report Designer Software Provides an intuitive Java-based design environment that facilitates the creation of custom reports to satisfy your unique reporting requirements. Design, build, and deliver new reports that augment the built-in library of 100+ canned reports to empower line of business managers and IT staff with actionable business intelligence. The software's custom reporting capabilities that satisfy your unique audit, service level management, planning, and communications needs. Based on the same flexible Java reporting technology used by the standard Reporter component of the HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition, Report Designer makes it easy to design, build, and deliver custom reports that empower business and IT users with actionable business intelligence.
  • HP Storage Essentials Backup Manager Software extends HP Storage Essentials Suite with powerful Backup resource management and reporting, ensuring health and performance of your data protection infrastructure. Report on statistics such as: backup resources, success/failure, SLAs, backup volume, job size, and client history. Maps backup dependencies on SAN resources and extends topology to tape libraries and drives, backup servers. You can also monitor drive performance. Supports HP OpenView Data Protector and Veritas Netback up applications.
  • HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software provides comprehensive Network Attached Storage (NAS) management capabilities for HP ProLiant Storage Server, NetApp® NAS and SUN StorEdge NAS network storage solutions. Visualize your distributed HP NAS solutions and NetApp filers and centrally manage their capacity, performance, events, and dependencies to ensure NAS availability and performance and unify SAN and NAS management. The software's extensive range of NAS discovery, topology, reporting, and management capabilities for NAS environments. Why manage NAS and SAN infrastructure independently. This plug-in will allow you to integrate your entire NAS and SAN infrastructure. Better understand the impact of configuration changes and file sharing activities. Improve utilization, availability and root cause performance analysis on your NAS infrastructure.
  • HP Storage Essentials also offer Integration with OpenView software such HP OpenView Operations for Windows via Smart Plug-ins (SPI) enables an Adaptive Enterprise, by helping you achieve a tight coupling between business and IT so you can quickly and easily respond to change. Automation, visualization and simplification delivered by Storage Essentials suite increases administrator efficiency to manage storage growth. It reduces cost of storage by improving utilization and Just-In-Time purchase of assets.
  • Application infrastructure monitoring and ability to align storage tiers with user needs improves quality of storage service. Standards based architecture, customized reporting and interface to integrate into existing environment protects investment.

If you would like to learn more about the extensive capabilities of the HP OpenView solution, please contact the team of engineers at Nth Generation today.
 

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