This software stands behind the stable operation of a multi-vendor storage system environment such as a SAN, a DAS, and a NAS using the configuration that provide integrated management of storage-related resources and functions of connection, fault and performance management, and reporting function.
Configuration Management Realizing Total Management of Devices in Entire System
This function displays the status of each device in a current entire storage system and the status of physical connection between devices graphically on the Web Console. You can drill down from an icon of each device to the detail window to get detail information which part of the device (for example, a Fibre Channel switch port) is connected to which part.
Correlation Management Realizing Total Management of Small-sized Resources of All Devices
This function not only manages detailed configurations within the storage devices but also automatically obtains the physical paths from disks and related server node configuration information, and then displays information correlating to this data on a single window.
It used to be very hard to recognize the correlation between entities because those entities were supported by their own management tools and were displayed in various formats respectively. In this software, the correlation of entities can be displayed in a common display format on a single window, and consequently the entire configuration can simply be grasped and an error can be detected if any configuration error should exist.
Fault Management Function for Facilitating to Locate of Failed Parts and Affected Areas
Failures that occur on devices are properly displayed in an understandable way.
Error information can be automatically reported to Systemwalker, integrated administrative software, and other venders' Management Software, and centralized management of the system becomes available.
Optimal Environment Delivery via Performance Information Management
Performance information of managed devices can be managed and displayed. Performance information of devices are stored on the Management Server, past performance information can be accessed as well as real-time performance information. Additionally, because performance information can be viewed in a graphic format, you can simply see the picture of the performance statuses and load statuses of devices.
In addition, threshold values can be set on devices so that alarms are reported when those threshold values are exceeded. The bottleneck causes and locations can be identified, and as a result, the configuration of devices is improved and the operation in the optimal environment is delivered.
Performance information can be viewed from the Report window of Systemwalker Service Quality Coordinator.
Reporting Function
This function collects capacity and usage time information for volumes connected to servers. This provides the required information for you to charge fees based on volume utilization.
Storage Cluster Function
If one storage device is down between two storage devices connected to a server, this function fails over to the other storage device transparently. This function enables business to continue.
