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Report warning message

Figure 4-20 shows a section of the report with a message warning of the non-optimum spare

configuration noted previously and providing a suggested resolution.

Figure 4-20 Report warning of non-optimum spare configuration

4.3 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk

The information and description in this section are for a large part based on the information in

the redbook Managing Disk Subsystems using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center,

SG24-7097. We have summarized the information that is relevant for the IBM TotalStorage

DS6000 performance management discussion.

4.3.1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is an open storage infrastructure management

solution designed to help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructures, to

help improve storage capacity utilization, and to help improve administrative efficiency. It is

designed to enable an agile storage infrastructure that can respond to On Demand storage

needs.

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center offering is a powerful set of tools designed to help

simplify the management of complex storage network environments. The IBM TotalStorage

Productivity Center consists of TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk, TotalStorage

Productivity Center for Replication, TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data (formerly Tivoli

Storage Resource Manager) and TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric (formerly Tivoli

SAN Manager).

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for disk is described in this section. It can be

invoked from the IBM TotalStorage Productivity launch pad by double-clicking the

Manage

Disk Performance and Replication

icon as shown in Figure 4-21 on page 110.