HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software - Manual (Page 13)

1 Overview of HP StorageWorks P9000
Command View Advanced Edition Suite
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite is a comprehensive software suite
providing management services for storage systems and hosts. Storage configuration, virtualization,
reporting, and monitoring tools are fully supported.
About HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced
Edition Suite
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software is a group of storage
management software products that allow you to manage storage resources in large-scale, complex
SAN environments.
Command View AE Suite includes:
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Device Manager software: Supports registration of physical resources
to be managed, including storage systems, hosts, and related tasks such as volume allocation and
grouping of resources for eased management and access.
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager software: Supports storage tiers of differing
performance characteristics so that volume data storage costs and performance can be optimized.
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager software: Supports volume data replication for
backup and disaster recovery.
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor software: Supports optimizing the performance of
storage resources.
Each product must be licensed for use in Command View AE Suite. At minimum, you must license
Device Manager. Additional licensing can be added as needed for other storage management
products. Related functionality becomes available in the Command View AE Suite user interface in
the form of activated menu choices, and new or updated tabs and related screens and buttons.
Instances of the management software products above can be installed on one or more Command
View AE Suite servers depending on the scale of resources under management and geographic
location. For information about supported Command View AE Suite server operating systems, related
requirements, and product installation options, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software Installation and Configuration Guide.
Features
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software includes the following
functionality:
• Registration of storage systems
• Registration of hosts
• LUN path management between hosts and storage
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