Exploring Storage Management Efficiencies and Provisioning - Understanding IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning

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SG24-6373-00 ISBN 0738491268

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Exploring Storage Management

Efficiencies and Provisioning

Understanding IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center and IBM

TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning

Provision, configure,

manage, and monitor

your storage

environment

Learn how to develop

storage workflows

Take storage

automation to the

next level

This IBM Redbook provides an overview of the solution

offerings — IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center and IBM

TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning.

It presents an overview of the product components and

functions, explaining the architecture and showing the use of

storage provisioning workflows.

This book is intended for those who want to learn more about

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM TotalStorage

Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning, and IBM

TotalStorage Provisioning Manager.

This easy-to-follow guide describes on demand provisioning

for managing resources and information, as well as

enhancing automation by explaining how these innovative

offerings may improve client business. The book explains how

to take storage management concepts to the next level,

describing the architecture, components, and component

interaction, explaining storage automation, and showing how

to create high and low level workflows by using examples

along with common storage management tasks.

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