The HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance is a centralized, appliance-based monitoring and management solution for the SAN. Connected directly to the fabric, it performs management functions outside of the data path and without involving host computers, allowing data transfers to proceed independently between computers and storage systems.
The Storage Management Appliance optimizes SAN availability and performance while streamlining manageability by enabling policy-based automation of repetitive storage management tasks. It provides an intuitive, web-based interface and storage management aggregation point enabling the user to organize, configure, visualize, monitor, and provision storage from anywhere, anytime. The Storage Management Appliance includes HSG Element Manager and provides support for HP OpenView Storage Operations Manager. This combined solution delivers easy-to-use tools for centralized management of Enterprise Virtual Array and EMA/MA Arrays on the SAN, as well as the foundation for comprehensive enterprise storage resource management across multi-vendor platforms in the network storage infrastructure.
The Storage Management Appliance supports a variety of additional value-added storage management applications from HP, as well as popular virus protection, backup, system management, and UPS software products.
Unobtrusive, centralized appliance for storage management The HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance provides an unobtrusive, centralized point for managing and monitoring the SAN and other networked storage systems. Designed to connect directly to the SAN fabric, the Storage Management Appliance performs management functions without involving host computers. Optimizes SAN availability and performance Strategically located out of the SAN data path, the Storage Management Appliance enables data transfers to proceed independently between computers and storage systems whether it is operating or not. The Storage Management Appliance optimizes SAN availability and performance while streamlining SAN manageability. Web-based interface for storage management Included with the Storage Management Appliance, HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance software provides a Web-based aggregation and entry point for centralized storage management. This intuitive interface enables the user to organize, visualize, configure, and monitor storage from a single navigation point on the SAN. Storage Management Appliance software provides a launch site for a variety of value-added HP storage management applications, and provides navigation links to directly manage storage components on the SAN. HSG Element Manager This easy to use, graphical storage configuration and monitoring tool centralizes storage management across network and multivendor platforms. Included with the HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance, HSG Element Manager reduces the job of storage management to simple point-and-click, across the switched Fibre Channel SAN. It provides for easy configuration of HP StorageWorks HSG80/60 storage systems as well as field replaceable unit (FRU) level fault detection and notification, through an SNMP agent with MIB event logging. This new version introduces a provider for the Storage Networking Industry Association Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), enabling greater multi-vendor manageability in the enterprise network storage infrastructure.
HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance is available through HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) from the Tools & Links tab on the System Page. Refer to System Page - Tools & Links Tab for information on accessing the System Page.
Go to http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/managementappliance/index.html for more information and access to documentation.
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