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 IBM® Systems Director Storage Control
IBM® Systems Director Storage Control enables the
management of systems and storage with a single pane of glass. IBM Systems
Director with Storage Control provides a single management console and
system for managing both server and storage systems. Storage Control is an
IBM systems Director plug-in based on IBM
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. It integrates tightly with the IBM
Systems Director and VMControl environment providing integrated physical and
virtual server and storage management through a single user interface.
Storage Control unifies the management of physical and virtual server and
storage resources for integrated end-to-end life cycle management,
including: configuration, discovery, health, capacity, inventory,
provisioning, topology, updates, alerts and retirement. Storage Control is
especially important for IT administration groups that have responsibility
across servers and storage.
Benefits
- Leverage integrated server and storage management to improve service
level agreements and responsiveness to business needs
- Reduce complexity and risk of managing storage with the rest of IT
operations
- Significantly reduce storage management cost
Features
- Extends storage management of IBM Systems Director and VMControl to
cover most IBM storage systems
- Storage device discovery and coverage in integrated physical and
logical topology views
- Show relationships between storage and server resources
- Ability to configure logical and physical configuration
- Ability to view controller and volume status and to set notification
alerts
- Single management server deployment
- Integration with VMControl featuring the following additional
functions:
- Storage provisioning for image creation, deployment, and cloning
- Ability to manage storage system pool lifecycle, take group
actions across pool and policy-based storage placement,
provisioning, and cloning actions within the pool
IBM Systems Director Storage Control requires IBM DB2 (restricted-use
license included at no additional cost) as the IBM Systems Director database
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