IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1: The Next Generation

2 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center: The Next Generation

1.1 What is IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center?

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is an integrated set of software components that

provides end-to-end storage management, from the host and application to the target storage

device in a heterogeneous platform environment. This software offering provides disk and

tape library configuration and management, performance management, SAN fabric

management and configuration, and host-centered usage reporting and monitoring from the

perspective of the database application or file system. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center:

 Simplifies the management of storage infrastructures.

 Manages, configures, and provisions SAN-attached storage.

 Monitors and tracks performance of SAN-attached devices.

 Monitors, manages, and controls (through zones) SAN fabric components.

 Manages the capacity utilization and availability of file systems and databases.

TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1 is an integrated storage infrastructure management

solution that simplifies, automates and optimizes the management of storage devices,

storage networks and capacity utilization of file systems and databases. It helps you manage

the capacity utilization of file systems and databases and automate file system capacity

provisioning, perform device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single

user interface, tune and proactively manage the performance of storage devices on the SAN

and manage, monitor and control your SAN fabric.

TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1 provides a single management platform that allows you

to centralize how you manage your storage infrastructure. By providing an integrated suite

with management modules focused on various aspects of the storage infrastructure,

TotalStorage Productivity Center delivers the capability to do role based administration,

single sign-on and a single management server and repository. The central console provides

a centralized place to monitor, plan, configure, report and do problem determination on the

SAN fabric, storage arrays and storage capacity.

1.1.1 TotalStorage Productivity Center structure

In this section, we look at the TotalStorage Productivity Center structure from the logical and

physical view.

Logical Structure

The logical structure of TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1 has three layers, as shown in

Figure 1-1 on page 3.

The infrastructure layer consists of basic function such as messaging, scheduling, logging,

device discovery, and a consolidated database shared by all components of TotalStorage

Productivity to ensure consistent operation and performance.

The application layer consists of core TotalStorage Productivity Center management

functions, based on the infrastructure implementation, that provide different disciplines of

storage or data management. These application components are most often associated with

the product components that make up the product suite, such as fabric management, disk

management, replication management and data management.

The interface layer presents integration points for the products that make up the suite. The

integrated graphical user interface (GUI) brings together product and component functions

into a single representation that seamlessly interacts with the components to centralize the

tasks for planning, monitoring, configuring, reporting, topology viewing, and problem

resolving.

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Figure 1-1 TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1 logical structure

Physical structure

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is comprised of the following elements:

 A data component IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data (formerly IBM Tivoli

Storage Resource Manager)

 A fabric component IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric (formerly IBM Tivoli

SAN Manager)

 A disk component IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk (formerly IBM

TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager)

 A replication component (formerly IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager Replication

Manager)

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center includes a centralized suite installer and IBM

TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for

Fabric share a common agent to manage the fabric as well as capacity utilization of file

systems and databases. Figure 1-2 on page 4 shows the TotalStorage Productivity Center

V3.1 physical structure.

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