HP StoreFront Analytics for VMware Software Licenses - Manual (Page 5)

1 Introduction
HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for VMware vCOPS™ 1.1 provides integrated and highly automated
performance, capacity, configuration compliance, and cost management tools to the vCenter
Operations Manager custom Graphical User Interface (GUI). The software uses the VCOPs analytics
engine that analyzes what is normal and then applies them to a dynamic HP 3PAR environment.
For information on vCenter Operations Manager, refer to VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Enterprise documentation at:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcops-pubs.html
When the HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for VMware vCOPS™ 1.1 is installed, the custom HP
Storage Monitoring, HP Storage Troubleshooting, and HP Storage Performance dashboards are
added to the vCenter Operations Manager custom GUI.
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The HP Storage Monitoring dashboard allows you to monitor 3PAR resources associated with
a vCenter environment. The attributes that can be monitored include: storage system health,
capacity utilization, and system alerts. The analytics engine also allows for proactive monitoring
of the HP 3PAR environment and indicates the state of the resources within the storage system.
If a problem occurs, an alert is triggered and displayed. The analytics engine also provides
for proactive prediction which can determine the point in the future when a resource will reach
a critical level.
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The HP Storage Troubleshooting dashboard is used to troubleshoot the storage system. It
provides a way to correlate from the virtual environment to the storage environment and it
provides tools to drill down and identify problem resources within the storage system to solve
load or capacity issues.
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The HP Storage Performance dashboard provides tools to view how well the storage system
resources are being utilized and to help balance performance trends before they become
issues.
The HP StoreFront Analytics Pack for VMware vCOPS™ 1.1 can be installed with the Advanced
and Enterprise editions of vCenter Operations Manager, but not the Standard edition.
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