Hp process resource manager overview – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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management functions outside the data path and without involving host computers, allowing data transfers
to proceed independently between computers and storage systems.

The Storage Management Appliance optimizes SAN availability and performance while streamlining
manageability by enabling policy-based automation of repetitive storage management tasks. It provides an
intuitive, web-based interface and storage management aggregation point, enabling you to organize,
configure, visualize, monitor, and provision storage from anywhere, anytime. The Storage Management
Appliance includes HSG Element Manager and provides support for HP OpenView Storage Operations
Manager. This combined solution delivers easy-to-use tools for centralized management of Enterprise Virtual
Array and Enterprise Modular Array (EMA)/Modular Array (MA) arrays on the SAN, as well as the foundation
for comprehensive enterprise storage resource management across multivendor platforms in the network
storage infrastructure.

The Storage Management Appliance supports a variety of additional value-added storage management
applications from HP, as well as popular virus protection, backup, system management, and UPS software
products. Tje Storage Management Appliance provides the following features:

Unobtrusive, centralized appliance for storage management

The HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance provides an unobtrusive, centralized point for
managing and monitoring the SAN and other networked storage systems. Designed to connect directly
to the SAN fabric, the Storage Management Appliance performs management functions without involving
host computers.

SAN availability and performance optimization

Strategically located out of the SAN data path, the Storage Management Appliance enables data
transfers to proceed independently between computers and storage systems whether it is operating.
The Storage Management Appliance optimizes SAN availability and performance while streamlining
SAN manageability.

Web-based interface for storage management

Included with the Storage Management Appliance, HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance
software provides a web-based aggregation and entry point for centralized storage management. This
intuitive interface enables you to organize, visualize, configure, and monitor storage from a single
navigation point on the SAN. The Storage Management Appliance software provides a launch site for
a variety of value-added HP storage management applications and provides navigation links to directly
manage storage components on the SAN.

HSG Element Manager

This easy-to-use, graphical storage configuration and monitoring tool centralizes storage management
across network and multivendor platforms. Included with the HP OpenView Storage Management
Appliance, HSG Element Manager reduces the job of storage management to simple point-and-click,
across the switched Fibre Channel SAN. It provides for easy configuration of HP StorageWorks
HSG80/60 storage systems as well as field replaceable unit (FRU) level fault detection and notification,
through an SNMP agent with MIB event logging. This new version introduces a provider for the Storage
Networking Industry Association Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), enabling greater
multivendor manageability in the enterprise network storage infrastructure.

HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance is available through HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
from the Tools & Links tab on the System Page. See

“Tools & Links tab”

for information on accessing the

System Page

.

See

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/sanworks/managementappliance/index.html

for more

information and access to documentation.

HP Process Resource Manager overview

HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) enables the system administrator to focus the appropriate amount of
system resources exactly where the business needs them. This powerful resource management tool runs as
an addition to the HP UNIX operating system (HP-UX). When PRM is enabled, groups of users or applications
are guaranteed a specified portion of the total system central processing unit (CPU) processing cycles, of
the available real memory resources, and of the disk bandwidth to logical volume-managed (LVM) systems.

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