TPC (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center)
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Tivoli Storage Productivity Center allows for management of the SAN, storage devices, and host resources, including databases and file systems, through a single control point. It provides a progression from basic storage management with Tivoli Productivity Center Basic Edition to a comprehensive solution for enterprise storage resource management with Tivoli Productivity Center Standard Edition. In between these capabilities, if you wish to use Tivoli Storage Productivity Center primarily to manage the performance or replication of your storage systems, you can purchase a license specifically for those functions.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition provides basic storage management for SAN-attached storage devices and the networks to which they are connected. It provides device asset information, connectivity, capacity data, and health and status monitoring for the supported devices. If you have a license to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition installed, you can upgrade to advanced features via the simple procedure of installing a license file on the console where the software is running.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data provides file-level capacity management for servers connected to a SAN infrastructure. It is designed to enable the administrator to create detailed reports on storage availability and utilization by server, operating system, user, and database application. Policy-based alerts can be configured to notify the administrator when the utilization of a selected volume exceeds a predefined threshold, and integration with Tivoli Storage Manager helps the administrator to reclaim space on the volume by deleting unneeded data or selecting it for archive.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk is designed to provide storage device configuration and management from a single console. It includes performance capabilities to help monitor and manage performance and measure service levels by storing received performance statistics into database tables for later use. Policy-based automation enables event action based on customer policies. It sets performance thresholds for the devices based on selected performance metrics, generating alerts when those thresholds are exceeded. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk helps simplify the complexity of managing multiple SAN-attached storage devices.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication is designed to support hundreds of replication sessions across thousands of volumes, supporting both open and z/OS attached volumes. In addition, it helps monitor performance of all copy session types and reports on the amount of data exposed at the disaster recovery site (not in synchronization with the source site). The Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Three-Site BC feature optionally provides three-site recovery management, supporting the IBM System Storage DS8000 Metro Global Mirror feature. The Three-Site feature is designed to support fast fail-over and fail-back, fast reestablishment of three-site mirroring, data currency at the remote site with minimal lag behind the local site, and quick resynchronization of mirrored sites using incremental changes only.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition provides over 400 enterprise-wide reports, monitoring and alerts, policy-based action, and file-system capacity automation in a heterogeneous environment. You can address the challenges of an on demand environment with customizable storage-management policies that are designed to help manage key aspects of the storage infrastructure including capacity, assets, events, and availability. It provides a suite of tools to help enterprises identify, evaluate, control, and predict storage usage and growth. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition offers active, policy-based management for an automated, self-healing approach to storage resource management.
IBM Storage Enterprise Resource Planner (SERP)
IBM SERP compliments storage and reporting management (SRM) tools and does not manage storage itself. It collects data from SRM tools and provides correlated reporting that can help you make decisions about how you manage storage in a global environment. If you spend tens of millions of dollars managing storage, efficiency improvements made possible through the use of IBM SERP reports can help significantly lower storage costs by helping you use storage more efficiently and charging back to business units. Those who previously needed to collect data about storage can spend time on more valuable tasks since IBM SERP creates reports through automatic collection of data.
