Highlights
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition is designed to help reduce the complexity of managing IBM Storwize V7000, IBM System Storage® DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000 devices by allowing administrators to configure, manage and monitor performance of their entire storage infrastructure from a single console. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition offers equivalent functionality to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk.
Administrators can monitor and analyze performance statistics for these storage systems down to five minute intervals. The performance data can be viewed in real time in the topology viewer, stored for historical reporting, or used to generate timely alerts by monitoring performance thresholds for various device parameters.
Utilizing a new Storage Management Initiative—Specification (SMI-S) Common Information Model (CIM) agent, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition helps gather performance data such as:
- Controller input and output rate (read/write/total)
- Controller data rate (read/write/total)
- Controller cache hits percentage (read/write/overall)
- Port I/O rate (read/write/total)
- Port data rate (read/write/total)
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Manager for Disk Midrange Edition is designed to enable the IT administrator to:
- Provide reporting across multiple arrays from a single console
- Receive timely alerts that can enable event action based on business policies by monitoring performance thresholds for the devices based on performance metrics and the generation of alerts when those thresholds are exceeded
- Monitor performance metrics such as input and output (I/O) and data rates, and cache utilization across multiple storage subsystems from a single console
- Help administrators measure services levels by storing received performance statistics into database tables for later use, and helps analyze and generate reports on monitored devices for display in the central administrative console
Key benefits include:
- Designed to offer continuous and proactive performance analysis with comprehensive monitoring and fault identification to help improve SAN availability
- Designed to help you improve storage return on investment by keeping SANs operational reliably and dependably
- Designed to help reduce storage administration costs by simplifying the management of complex SANs
- Supports the performance reporting capabilities on the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and SVC Entry Edition with attached DS3000, DS4000 and/or DS5000 devices
- Supports performance reporting capabilities for any storage virtualized by the IBM Storwize V7000
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition is set apart from IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk because it is:
- Designed to support IBM’s entry-level and midrange storage disk products (IBM Storwize V7000, DS3000, DS 4000 and DS5000)
- Licensed per storage device, such as disk controllers and their respective expansion units. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition and/or IBM Virtual Disk System controllers are not counted as a storage device when computing IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition pricing within these environments
