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PATROL® for IBM Enterprise Storage Server
Business Challenge
The IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) provides a basis for highly flexible, scalable and available IT infrastructures. It is important to establish and modify configurations based on evolving workloads and ensure the device's health. But this can be difficult without automated tools. As capacity and storage grows, it becomes even more critical to ensure the device is online and performing optimally.
Business Need
- Simplify device management and centralize storage management by combining storage data and tasks
- Ensure availability, optimize performance and automate maintenance of network storage devices
- Monitor, expose and manage key environmental and performance data points to avoid system downtime
- Isolate and resolve device problems quickly and automatically with minimal manual intervention
- Guarantee applications' service levels and access by identifying device-related events and alerts
Our Solution
PATROL for IBM Enterprise Storage Server uses StorWatch Expert, an IBM software tool, as a means to gather performance, configuration, and device status and event information. With PATROL for IBM ESS, you can view the storage array in a hierarchical manner and receive a variety of performance metrics including those for cache and changes in I/O activity at the cluster and logical disk levels.
Key Features & Benefits
- Centralizes and simplifies device management through detailed topology mapping and reporting of discovered devices
- Optimizes storage configurations by proactively tracking and reporting detailed environmental, performance and capacity metrics for storage devices
- Manages costs associated with storage devices through predefined, vendor-specific and customized historical application-to-storage device reporting
- Expedites problem resolution through a centralized GUI-interface menu, user-defined thresholds and drill-down capabilities into the device
- Ensures applications are online and performing by automatically detecting and resolving device-related events and alerts
- Maintains rapid data access without interruption by consolidating critical device- and application-specific event, performance and capacity data
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