HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Software
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1. Fabric Manager Enterprise Software T5542A HP StorageWorks B Series Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Software TA754A HP StorageWorks B series DCFM Professional Plus Upgrade LTU TA755A GY DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page i HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric M QuickSpecs orageVVorks D series Data Center Fabric Manager Software Overview Highlights Centralizes management of B series fabrics within and across data centers including those with different protocols Supports server virtualization including visualizing and setting QoS levels for applications running on virtual machines Reduces expenses and maximizes productivity by automating tasks and providing easy to use wizard driven operations Administers SLAs via industry leading monitoring troubleshooting diagnostics and event notification capabilities Secures data flow from applications to storage across data center fabrics by managing user access controls and ensuring consistent security settings Delivers real time and historical performance monitoring to enable proactive problem diagnosis maximize resource utilization and facilitate capacity planning Integrates seamlessly with leading third party automation solutions to provide a holistic approach to data center management DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 2 HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager Qu ickSpecs Sottware Prod2. HP or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HP order configuration tools e Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find HP Care Pack Services at htto h30125 www3 hp com csn salesmktg eltpack elt_nonlkup_ctrylang asp code ELNL Recommended HP Care Pack Services tor optimal satisfaction with your HP product Recommended Services Recommended Deployment 3 Year HP Support Plus 24 For a higher return on your storage investment HP Support Plus 24 provides integrated hardware and software support services designed specifically for your technology Available 24x7 this 3 year combined reactive support option delivers onsite hardware support and over the phone software support around the clock Leverage the full strength of HP Technology Services customers can trust the services professionals at HP to work collaboratively with them putting our strategic and technical know how to work across their entire infrastructure Improve uptime with responsive hardware and software services Cost ettectively obtain expert multivendor support Enjoy consistent service coverage across geographically dispersed sites Update HP and selected third party sottware at a predictable cost Take advantage of subscription savings on software updates Increase revenue with access to world class expertise without headcount implications Increase customer satistaction with no interoperability gaps http h20195 www2 hp com V2 GetPDF aspx 598 1 66
3. through a fabric for some or all nodes Failover allows a non preferred path to be used if the preferred fails TIZs use failover by default but it can be disabled if traffic should stop if a preferred path fails TIZ can be used to manually map out traffic flows within a fabric based on application priority and topology The SAO license optimizes overall application performance for physical servers and virtual machines SAO when deployed with B Series Fibre Channel HBAs extends B Series Adaptive Networking from the B series SAN fabric to the server infrastructure This delivers application level fine grain Quality of Service QoS management to the HBAs and related server applications Copyright 2010 Hewlett Packard Development Company L P The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 13
4. 38EN pdt Product is customer installable DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 9 HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager Qu ickSpecs Sottware Service and Support HP Care Pack and Warranty Information Related HP Care Pack Services that will enhance your HP product experience Related Services 3 Year HP Proactive 24 for SANs As an alternative to our recommended support level for customers who want improved SAN availability and access to a wide range of proactive and reactive services HP Proactive 24 Service tor SANs is an integrated hardware and software support service that combines proactive problem prevention with responsive 24x7 assistance for rapid problem resolution A collaborative relationship with HP Services strengthens your IT team and gives you direct access to our technical expertise as issues arise Improve IT staff skills increase SAN productivity Proactive 24 Service tor SANs can help you e Enhance the skills and efficiency of your IT staff through knowledge transfer shared best practices in storage management and hands on assistance Improve SAN availability through access to a wide range of proactive and reactive services e Boost productivity through effective change management configuration assistance and performance optimization Increase the return on your SAN investment e Enhance your overall operational effectiveness Expert single point of con
5. S10 Sun Solaris 10 HP DCFM Enterprise and Protessional must be installed on a dedicated server that meets the minimum requirements specified in the DCFM User Manual HP StorageWorks DCFM Enterprise edition supports up to 24 SAN Fabrics and 9 000 ports trom a single server HP StorageWorks DCFM Professional supports up to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports from a single server DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 7 HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager Qu ickSpecs Software Service and Support HP Care Pack and Warranty Information Product Warranty Services Included with Product Purchase For increased uptime productivity and ROI HP Care Pack packaged services for Storage Extending warranties with HP Care Pack Services HP warrants only that the Software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety 90 days from delivery EXCLUSIVE REMEDY The entire liability of HP and its suppliers and your exclusive remedy for Software that does not conform to this Limited Warranty shall be the repair or replacement of the defective media This warranty and remedy are subject to your returning the defective media during the warranty period to HP in the country in which you obtained the Software HP DCFM comes with one year of 9x5 software support which includes comprehensive support and software updates to enhance the performance and availability of your software Experi
6. Upgrade LTU TA755A Step 2 Additional B Series Supported Software Options SAN Switch Power Pack Includes bundled license for ISL Trunking Adaptive Networking Advanced Performance Monitor Bundle Extended Fabric and Fabric Watch SAN Switch Power Pack Includes bundled license for ISL Trunking Advanced Performance Monitor Extended Fabric and Fabric Bundle Watch Fabric Watch Fabric Watch enables each switch to monitor the SAN for potential faults and automatically alert network managers to problems before they become failures Fabric Watch tracks a variety of SAN fabric elements events and counters Monitoring tabric wide events ports SFPs and environmental parameters permits early fault detection and isolation as well as performance measurement Each switch in the SAN needs its own Fabric Watch license ISL Trunking High performance enhanced trunking Optional license logically groups up to eight E ports to provide a high bandwidth trunk between two switches Each switch needs its own license The switch operating system views the trunk as a single high bandwidth resource up to 64 Gb when routing connections between switches Connections are load balanced across the individual links which comprise the logical trunk group Performance Monitoring This enabling technology provides the ability to monitor and watch specific fabric metrics trom a SID Source ID to a DID Destination ID creating a method to be able to fine tune and scal
7. anties alone Standard warranty protects against product defects and some causes of downtime but not the business By using a standard approach to warranty uplifts such as HP Care Pack Services you can reduce downtime risks and be more certain of operational consistency for both mission critical and standard business computing Simply put HP Care Pack Services normalize the warranty of combined products helping you proactively guard against unplanned downtime For cost effective upgrading or extending your standard warranty HP Care Pack Services offer a suite of standard reactive hardware and software support services that are sold separately or combined as with our Support Plus and Suppor Plus 24 services The portfolio also provides a combination of proactive and reactive services such as Proactive 24 Service and Critical Service In addition with HP Proactive Select we offer an innovative approach to service delivery that gives you the flexibility to acquire the specific proactive services you need today then add services as your needs evolve HP Proactive Select offers a broad set of technical or per event type service options including server storage and network SAN device and software environment installation and education services Services that you can mix and match depending on your specific requirements from preliminary planning and equipment delivery to installation configuration integration and testing through every level o
8. e HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager QuickSpecs i Software Overview HP DCFM software is a server based network management applications that enable end to end management of B series Storage Area Network SAN fabrics HP DCFM Enterprise and Professional manage and secure the flow of data across multiple fabrics They provide a holistic view of SAN Fabrics whether local to the data center or geographically dispersed With policy based management HP DCFM Enterprise and Professional enable IT organizations to meet their Service Level Agreements SLAs HP DCFM Enterprise and Professional provides multi protocol networking suppor for Fibre Channel Fibre Channel over IP Fibre Channel Routing iSCSI Both DCFM Enterprise and Professional seamlessly manage multiple data center fabrics to help optimize performance and maximize the availability of data and networked resources They do so by utilizing industry leading capabilities for monitoring troubleshooting diagnostics and proactive event notification In addition both products feature easy to use administration tools that streamline or automate repetitive tasks so organizations can achieve unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency Organizations must maximize the utilization of their infrastructure resources With unique asset tracking and reporting capabilities DCFM Enterprise and Professional provide detailed visibility into performance utilization of hardwar
9. e and network bandwidth HP DCFM Enterprise and Professional maximizes the ROI of hardware purchases by better utilizing existing infrastructure resources and identifying new network requirements Today only HP StorageWorks DCFM Enterprise provides a non disruptive path and functional continuity for organizations that are upgrading from Fabric Manager Both DCFM Enterprise and Professional however provide comprehensive management of both B series FOS based fabrics as well as fabrics in interop mode with M series M EOS and FOS based fabrics Organizations that need to manage smaller SAN environments can utilize B series Data Center Fabric Manager Professional a server based application included with B series switches that contains a subset of Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise features Data Center Fabric Manager Professional enables the centralized management of up to 1 000 ports in a single fabric performing key functions such as firmware downloads and configurations for groups of switches while accessing device level information What s New There are now two advanced management versions of HP Data Center Fabric Manager software e HP DCFM Enterprise provides a view of up to 24 SAN Fabrics and 9 000 switch ports e HP DCFM Professional Plus provides a view of up to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2 560 switch ports e HP DCFM Professional Plus to DCFM Enterprise Upgrade accommodating infrastructure growth Models HP StorageWorks B Series Data Center
10. e your fabric more efficiently Performance Monitoring also allows the ability to have an early warning detection of hot spots within the fabric providing a powertul tool for maintaining overall balanced pertormance Extended Fabric Extends all of the scalability reliability and performance benefits of Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks SANs beyond the native 10 km distance specitied by the Fibre Channel standard GY DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 12 e HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager QuickSpecs ar Software Contiguration Information Adaptive Networking Server Application Optimization Adaptive Networking AN is a family of technologies which allow flexible control of traffic movement within the fabric which deliver application aware management of fabric resources Applications may be used with multiple protocols and multiple classes of service It includes the following features Ingress Rate Limiting Allows the ingress bandwidth of a port to be throttled to a rate lower than negotiated with the SAN node This could be very useful for enterprises offering stepped levels of service and enforcing SLAs Quality of Service QoS Enables zones with high medium and low priorities within a fabric on a zone by zone basis This can be very useful for prioritizing array replication over MANs and WANs over less critical traffic Traffic Isolation Zones Defines paths
11. enced Response Center engineers provide trustworthy advice on issues such as software features and use problem diagnosis and resolution and software defect identification Software support benefits include Improved productivity of system managers and operators Improved system performance and reduced downtime due to software defects Expedited problem resolution through expert level technical resources Software and documentation updates Electronic access to essential product and support information These days you need to get the most out of your storage investment you can t afford not to When you buy HP storage products and solutions it s also a good time to think about what levels of service and support you may need To help take the worry out of deploying designing maintaining and managing your environment we ve designed a portfolio of service options that are as flexible reliable and scalable as your storage Unlike storage only vendors we take a holistic approach to your entire environment bridging storage servers blades software and network infrastructures with our HP Care Pack packaged services for Storage Protect your business beyond the warranty When it comes to robustness and reliability standard warranties on today s computing equipment have matured just as the technologies have matured Good news on some fronts but also a source of potential problems and subsequent consequences that come from depending on standard warr
12. endations that are intended to improve availability levels and ongoing management of your storage and SAN environment http h20195 www2 hp com v2 GetPDF aspx 4AA 1 294 1 ENW pdt DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 10 e HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager QuickSpecs i Software Service and Support HP Care Pack and Warranty Information eSupport Customer Technical Training HP Services Awards Additional Services Information HP eSupport is a portfolio of technology based services that assist you with managing your business environment from the desktop to the data center Support Portal The HP support portal provides one stop access to the information tools and services you need to manage the daily operations of your IT environment Features include Access to self solve tools including search technical knowledge base Efficient logging and tracking of support cases Collaboration with other business and IT professionals Download of patches and drivers Access to diagnostic tools Proactive notification of relevant information Access to certain features of the support portal requires an HP service agreement To access the support portal visit htto www hp com support Consider education as an integral part of your strategy to get the best return on investment tor your HP storage solution HP offers a variety of training courses on storage sottware networking archi
13. es provide several benefits for example if a switch that had been performing successfully until just a few minutes ago is suspected to be misbehaving due to an accidental configuration it can quickly be restored to the last known good configuration Similarly a user can remove a switch whose lease has expired and replace it with a new switch of the same model without having to manually recontigure the new switch it can be provisioned through HP DCFM An enterprise may have global corporate standards for switch configuration and requirements With HP DCFM ensuring configuration consistency is easy replications can be configured from a golden master switch to all other switches DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 6 HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager Qu ickSpecs Software Pre Requisite Information Software Pre Requisites Hardware Prerequisites Server Pre Requisites Software Licensing Firmware versions defined in SAN Design Guide http www hp com go SANDesignGuide B Series 2 Gb s v5 x firmware 4 Gb s and 8 Gb s Switches listed in the SAN Design Guide Also refer to htto www hp com go SANDesignGuide HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise is support on the following Operating Systems e Microsoft Windows 2003 Server XP Professional Vista Business Edition and 2008 Server Linux Red Hat AS 4 0 Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced SuSE Linux E
14. f ongoing support Our HP Care Pack packaged services for Storage assures help when you need it most And for many products DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 8 e HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager QuickSpecs i Software Service and Support HP Care Pack and Warranty Information HP Storage Services Offering reliability flexibility and value just like your storage post warranty HP Care Pack Services are available when your original warranty has expired HP Storage Services offers a full spectrum of customer care from technology support to complex migrations to complete completely managed services HP Factory Express provides customization integration and deployment services for turnkey solutions HP Education offers flexible comprehensive training on storage networking disk storage systems and storage software to help your IT staff get the most out of your investments And HP Financial solutions extend innovative financing and asset management programs to cost effective buy manage and eventually retire your older equipment HP Storage Services the trusted business technology experts who manage your technology in action because when technology works business works htto www hp com hps storage NOTE Care Pack Services availability may vary by product and country HP Care Pack Services are sold by HP and HP Authorized Service Partners e Services for customers purchasing from
15. ffline without affecting the production fabric Configuration management enables automated backup of critical configurations across data centers and promotes contiguration consistency across the fabric Security management allows multiple levels of user access and views with flexible definitions of administrator responsibilities helps maintain consistent security settings across multiple switches by leveraging the Security Replication Wizard and manages the configuration and settings HP DCFM Enterprise Also Adds FICON and cascaded FICON environment configuration and management provides powertul analysis and diagnostic capabilities as well as SAN level RNID data display Port Connectivity Dialog FICON Emulation support and Multi PDCM matrix display HP DCFM Protessional does not support management of FICON contigurations Full B Series DC SAN Backbone Director management with features such as Quality of Service QoS and end to end performance monitoring including management of the B Series DC SAN Backbone HP DCFM Protessional does not support management of the B Series DC SAN Backbone Director Virtualization support makes HP DCFM Enterprise and DCFM Pro virtualization aware allowing them to view information about the Virtual Machines residing in each physical server and to correlate that information with their own to simplity the management of virtualized environments The integrated DCFM Management Plug in tor VMware vCenter 4 0 enables Vir
16. mline repetitive operations which are typically prone to error EGM drives consistency across fabrics GY DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 4 HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager Qu ickSpecs Software Product Features while minimizing the risk associated with potential downtime due to configuration mismatches EGM provides streamlined troubleshooting for more effective fabric monitoring and diagnosis EGM is included with all FOS based switches It is part of the new manageability offering starting with the DC SAN Backbone Director Switch and applicable to all new B series products including the 8Gb switches 8 8 SAN Switch 8 24 SAN Switch 8 40 SAN Switch 8 80 SAN Switch and embedded products Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c Class EGM will also now be included with previous B Series FOS based hardware products from HP All three HP DCFM versions enable EGM functionality Customers have EGM functionality enabled within the hardware product and need only to make the decision around which application is right for them DCFM Professional Professional or Enterprise HP DCFM Enterprise and Professional Software Management Features Performance Monitoring and Management HP StorageWorks DCFM Enterprise and Professional enable IT organizations to monitor fabrics on a real time and on a historical basis Both offerings of DCFM use a policy driven approach to set thresholds for b
17. ng FCIP etc A non disruptive upgrade path is available trom Data Center Fabric Manager Protessional to Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise or Professional Advanced Management HP StorageWorks DCFM Enterprise and Protessional are the enterprise class products that support FOS products as well as FOS and M EOS products together HP DCFM Enterprise provides complete DC SAN Backbone Director management including enterprise class features environments such as FICON Fibre Channel Routing FCIP adaptive networking etc while HP DCFM Protessional provides the same feature set except for support for the DC SAN Backbone Director and FICON HP DCFM Enterprise delivers unprecedented scalability up to 24 tabrics and 9 000 switch ports while HP DCFM Professional scales to 4 SAN Fabrics and 2560 switch ports Both offerings provide brand new features including Adaptive Networking features for quality of service ingress rate limiting and traffic isolation zones While DCFM provides increased functionality not all teatures available in FM or HAFM are available in DCFM Enterprise and Protessional and some functions may operate differently Please refer to the Migration and Transition guide for additional information Enhanced Group Enhanced Group Management EGM is a FOS license that enables multi switch operations for those Management EGM switches that have EGM enabled It helps automate operations across multiple switches to save time and strea
18. nverged multi protocol Data Center Fabric As the HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director expanded fabric size and performance while adding new plug in fabric services such as adaptive networking so too does SAN management evolve from the switch and director management architecture of earlier products to the policy based fabric service management architecture of Data Center Fabric Manager Basic Management HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager Protessional is a management application available at no charge and comes with B series SAN Switches and Allows management of a single Fabric OS FOS fabric up to a 1 000 switch ports at a time Performs group switch management beyond the scope of Web Tools Does not offer management of the DC SAN Backbone Director or FICON Manages B Series SAN Switches M Series switches require DCFM Enterprise or Protessional It is targeted tor SMB customers that use FOS based SAN fabrics and require a management solution for smaller SANs based on a single fabric SMB customers that initially start off with Data Center Fabric Manager Professional and have a small SAN environment may over time feel the need for expansion to a mid range class product Data Center Fabric Manager Professional or an enterprise class product Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise as their environments start to grow in size and complexity and as they start to uptake more enterprise class functionality such as Fibre Channel Routi
19. oth individual ports and end to end between source application and target disk This allows users to address performance issues proactively rapidly diagnose the underlying causes and quickly resolve them before the SAN becomes the bottleneck for critical applications Furthermore IT organizations can use analytical and reporting features to study performance trends over time and make changes to maximize asset utilization and plan for future capacity needs Some performance monitoring and management capabilities are listed below Real time performance data collection monitoring and graphical display across FC FCIP and Gigabit Ethernet GbE ports and connections Historical pertormance data collection monitoring and graphical displays across FC FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing ports and connections e End to end monitors both real time and historical trom source application to target disk Policy based user detined performance thresholds e Color coded marching ants on the topology to show traffic status Zoning Zoning Impact Analysis Multi User Zoning HP StorageWorks DCFM supports the concept of an offline Zone database so that users can make zoning changes offline without affecting the production fabric This feature helps SAN administrators who receive storage provisioning requests throughout the day and want to make the configuration changes required Typically there is a very small change wind
20. ow each day during which the changes can actually be pushed to the production fabric The offline zoning feature provides precisely this ability Data Center Fabric Manager compares the selected offline database with the online database to see which source devices have gained or lost access to which target devices Data Center Fabric Manager provides both host to storage and storage to host connectivity views HP StorageWorks DCFM detects when more than one user is working on the same zone set and provides a notitication to these users Users can then choose to either contigure these changes serially or to continue to work in parallel HP DCFM provides a compare merge capability when the users are ready to commit the changes User can compare their own changes to the changes of other users to ensure that zone configurations are not accidentally overwritten In data center environments in which zoning changes to production fabrics are constantly being made this is an efficient collaboration tool DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 5 e HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager QuickSpecs ar Software Product Features Quality of Service Zoning Quality of Service QoS is a new feature in B series Adaptive Networking which enables users to set the LSAN Zoning desired QoS for applications running on both physical and virtual servers A High QoS setting gives critical applications the required bandwidth
21. priority maximum availability and optimal performance in the event of network congestion B series fabrics can automatically and continuously adapt to changing network dynamics to ensure that critical applications always receive high priority HP DCFM enables contiguration of QoS priorities using special zones and zoning a paradigm that is very familiar to SAN administrators Setting a QoS priority for an application whether it is running on a physical or virtual server is a simple choice from a right click menu HP StorageWorks DCFM has several features tor performing Logical SAN LSAN zoning that allows multiple fabrics whether local or remote to connect with each other without merging Only devices that have been specifically zoned within these fabrics can communicate with each other rather than complete unrestricted access HP DCFM consolidates LSAN zoning into the regular Zoning dialog box but provides a different zoning scope based on the backbone fabrics that have been discovered It displays potential zoning members based on the backbone fabric and its connected edge fabrics HP DCFM allow LSAN zones to be created edited and activated in the tabric zoning scope for both backbone and edge fabrics The HP DCFM topology supports comprehensive Meta SAN features which include visualization of the backbone and edge fabrics and display of Inter Fabric Links IFLs in the topology Contiguration Management Configuration management featur
22. tact assistance 24x7 An assigned HP Services account manager is your primary contact for proactive services and access to HP s diverse technical resources Your account manager works closely with your IT staff to understand your goals document the components of your infrastructure recommend changes to improve performance and stability and monitor ongoing operations through HP s industry leading remote monitoring and support tools http h20195 www2 hp com V2 GetPDF aspx 5982 6887EN pdt HP Assessment Service for SANs For customers interested in improving availability of their SAN and decreasing potential for unplanned downtime The HP Assessment Service for SANs offers customized technical and operational guidance to customers employing HP storage subsystems and the interconnecting storage area network SAN infrastructure In a typical engagement HP or one of our authorized business partners will perform a detailed discovery using HP s proprietary toolset to gain an understanding of the configuration of your storage devices and SAN topology The tindings trom this process will be compared to HP best practices and industry standards as detined by IT Service Management ITSM disciplines The results of the evaluation will be quickly and efficiently processed into information you can leverage This information in the form of a comprehensive HP SAN Assessment report will be summarized by HP or one of our authorized business partners with recomm
23. tual machine to storage proactive port monitoring Simplitied deployment HP DCFM Enterprise and DCFM Pro support the management of FOS products M EOS products as well as FOS and M EOS products together through the integrated DCFM SMI Agent SMI A and thus reduce the overhead of deploying managing multiple applications Unitied management HP DCFM Enterprise and DCFM Pro support Host Bus Adapter HBA Converged Network Adapter CNA management and thus provide a central point to monitor and manage these network components across multiple fabrics and data centers including pertormance and event management as well as troubleshooting and end to end management operations Enhanced support and seamless integration HP DCFM Enterprise and DCFM Pro provide support for the HP StorageWorks 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch in Access Gateway Mode HP DCFM Enterprise and DCFM Pro are also designed for easy Integration with leading third party solutions such as HP s Storage Essentials HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise and Professional are highly scalable Java based applications that manages multiple B Series switches and fabrics in real time In particular Data Center Fabric Manager provides the essential functions for efficiently configuring monitoring dynamically provisioning and managing SAN fabrics on a daily basis Through its single point SAN management plattorm Data Center Fabric Manager enables the global integration and exec
24. uct Features Feature List HP DCFM Enterprise and Protessional Features B Series DC SAN Director management with features such as Quality of Service QoS and end to end performance monitoring Unprecedented scalability HP DCFM Enterprise supports up to 24 physical SAN fabrics 9 000 switch ports and 20 000 end devices while HP DCFM Pro supports up to 4 physical SAN fabrics 2560 switch ports and 4096 end devices An overarching view of fabric health with at a glance views of switch and Inter Switch Link ISL health status including a connectivity map for status per device performance utilization rate per ISL and visualization of end devices Performance monitoring proactively addresses issues with both real time and historical performance data collection monitoring and graphical displays across Fibre Channel FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing ports and connections Fault management helps manage events and failures in the data center by contiguring rule based events You can detine triggers that prompt user actions Troubleshooting and diagnostics streamline problem resolution Advanced Call Home enables automatic calls into HP Service Centers when specitied triggering conditions are met Advanced Call Home detines how HP DCFM Enterprise and DCFM Pro should respond to certain events including automatically capturing diagnostic intormation from the switches Extensive zoning capabilities support analysis of the impact of zoning changes o
25. ution of processes across multiple fabrics Moreover Data Center Fabric Manager helps to lower the cost of SAN ownership by intuitively GY DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 3 o HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager QuickSpecs i Software Product Features facilitating a variety of SAN management tasks As a result Data Center Fabric Manager provides a flexible and powerful tool optimized to provide organizations with rapid access to critical SAN information across multiple fabrics This latest indention introduces full support for the B series router extension products for easy deployment of this new technology HP StorageWorks Data Center Fabric Manager software simplifies infrastructure management with the performance and scalability required for Next Generation Data Centers that connects applications to infrastructure in the majority of the world s data centers With Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise and Professional B Series products whether based on the Fabric Operating System FOS or the M EOS and FOS in interop mode can be managed with less cost and complexity Data Center Fabric Manager delivers compelling increases in scalability and performance which are essential as infrastructure management extends its scope from individual switches and directors to an end to end virtual data center with its pools of physical servers and storage connected by policy based services to the co
26. ving and disk storage systems Our classes are available in many delivery modalities from traditional instructor led courses at one of our 80 training centers worldwide to on site training customized to your needs or online http www hp com learn storage HP Services continues to be recognized for service and support excellence by customers partners industry organizations and publications around the world Recent honors and award retlect our services team s dedications technical expertise professionalism and uncompromising commitment to customer satistaction For a list of all our awards please visit http h202 1 9 www2 hp com services cache 433028 0 0 225 121 html For more information about HP Care Pack Services for Storage please visit http www hp com hps storage If you have specific questions contact your local HP representative Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at Contact HP hitp www hp com DA 13169 Worldwide Version 5 August 6 2010 Page 11 i HP StorageWorks B series Data Center Fabric M QuickSpecs orageWorks B series Data Center Fabric Manager Software Configuration Information Step 1 Configuration Select one Model Number Model Description Part Number HP StorageWorks B Series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software T5542A HP StorageWorks B Series Data Center Fabric Manager Professional Software TA754A HP StorageWorks B series DCFM Professional Plus
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