HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 21)

Communication with HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition
HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition is a series of storage management solutions that can
centrally manage ever-increasing storage systems to help reduce storage system management
workloads and streamline storage system operations.
However, because HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition products were originally designed
to manage open-system storage, their full power could not be unleashed in the field of
mainframe-system storage management. For this reason, users who owned both open-system and
mainframe-system storage had to manage them separately.
In recent years, customers have been demanding programs that can manage both open-system
and mainframe-system storage to address the problem that increasing storage sizes tends to increase
storage management cost.
Business Continuity Manager can link with HP XP7 Replication Manager, which is a management
server solution from the HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition product family. If Business
Continuity Manager is linked with HP XP7 Replication Manager, both open-system and
mainframe-system storage can be centrally managed from HP XP7 Replication Manager.
This linkage is achieved through Business Continuity Manager agents that, when configured
appropriately, provide an interface between the two solutions by receiving requests from HP XP7
Replication Manager and passing them on to Business Continuity Manager.
Figure 1 (page 21) is a conceptual illustration of this centralized management of open-system and
mainframe-system storage that can be achieved when Business Continuity Manager (shown as BC
Manager) is linked with HP XP7 Replication Manager (shown as Replication Manager).
Figure 1 Centralized management of open-system and mainframe-system storage
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