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PATROL® for StorageWorks
Business Challenge
Compaq StorageWorks includes high-availability, highly-configurable storage arrays. However, it is important to modify configurations for evolving workloads and ensure the device's health, but this can be difficult to accomplish manually. As capacity and storage systems are added, it becomes even more critical to automate metrics, health checks and diagnostics of the environment when exceptions occur.
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 StorageWorks provides a graphical view of the StorageWorks device. This solution shows physical attributes of the storage configuration, such as spindles, cache, controllers, power, temperature and vendor-specific performance data. Once these physical attributes and performance events are sent to the central PATROL repository, PATROL ensures that expensive storage assets are online and performing optimally.
Key Features & Benefits
- Centralizes and simplifies device management through detailed topology mapping and reporting of discovered devices and their interconnections
- Optimizes storage configurations by proactively tracking and reporting detailed environmental, performance and capacity metrics
- 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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