Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk

Consolidate and centralize administration of your SAN storage devices

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk is designed to enable device configuration and management of SAN-attached devices from a single console. In addition, it also includes performance capabilities to help monitor and manage the performance of the devices’ disks. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk is designed to help simplify the complexity of managing multiple SAN-attached storage devices.

Productivity Manager for Disk is designed to enable the IT administrator to:

Enable proactive performance management by provide an IT administrator with a single, integrated console for the performance management of IBM System Storage devices.
Monitor performance metrics across multiple storage subsystems from a single console.
Designed to allow administrators to monitor metrics, such as I/O rates and cache utilization, and support optimization of storage through the identification of the best LUNs across multiple storage subsystems.
Monitor and analyze performance statistics for storage systems to measure services levels by storing received performance statistics into database tables for later use, and analyze and generate reports on monitored devices for display in central administrative console.
Receive timely alerts to enable event action based on customer policies by setting performance thresholds for the devices based on performance metrics and the generation of alerts when those thresholds are exceeded.

Key benefits include:

Designed to help you potentially improve storage return on investment by keeping SANs operational reliably and dependably.
Designed to help reduce storage administration costs by simplifying the management of complex SANs.
Designed to offer continuous real-time monitoring and fault identification to improve SAN availability.