IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager

IBM Tivoli storage area network manager from Q Associates, IBM Business Partner UK

IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager
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The SAN Management Challenge

Now that you've built your SAN, you're finding it increasingly difficult to manage. Hosts from one vendor, storage devices from another, different operating systems, different file systems, different access methods - all of this creating a complexity you are not prepared for.

We have the answer. IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager is a comprehensive management solution for multi-vendor SANs. It includes automatic resource and topology discovery, monitoring and alerts, zone control and SAN error prediction capabilities. Tivoli SAN Manager is an enterprise scalable solution architected to ANSI SAN standards, allowing you to choose best of breed products for your storage infrastructure. Tivoli SAN Manager can help you:

Simplify the task of SAN management and configuration
Ensure SAN availability
Improve SAN ROI

Features	Advantages	Benefits
SAN fabric management	Automatically discovers SAN components and devices	Enables you to easily manage and your SAN from a single console
Topology views	Allows views at either the physical or logical level	Enables easy problem identification and resolution
Zone Control	Intuitive GUI discovers devices and makes them available to add or remove from zones	Comprehensive fabric management from a single console
Monitoring and Alerts	Real time monitoring and alerts gives you the edge in managing availability	Continuous data access on your SAN
SAN Error Predictor	Detects potential problem situations	Allows you to ensure high SAN availability by intelligently predicting a SAN link level failure before it occurs
Enterprise scalability	Scalable from SAN islands to enterprise SANs	Accommodates new and ever changing business needs
Open industry standards for SAN	Utilizes ANSI standards in the discovery of the SAN topology	Allows for interoperability and enables you to choose the best of breed technologies for your SAN infrastructure
Brocade API support	Enables management of Brocade switch zones	Allows you to leverage your existing investments
Integration with IBM Tivoli Systems Management	Integrates with Tivoli NetView, Tivoli Enterprise Console and Tivoli Data Warehouse	Simplifies training and administration and enables enable integrated, business-wide IT decisions and management

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