IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family for an on demand world

IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family

Helping you build an on demand storage environment

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a better wayOverview

Storage, today, is essential in helping enterprises

around the world—of every size and type—achieve

their business goals. Managing this storage within a

framework of legal requirements, usage and availability

needs, and operational-cost realities can be daunting.

One key to turning this growing management challenge

into a source of competitive advantage is the employment

of an end-to-end storage management strategy that

leverages the strength and breadth of one of the indus-

try’s most comprehensive storage management and

virtualization portfolios available: the IBM® TotalStorage®

Open Software Family.

The storage challenge

Storage is a top priority for every business—mission-

critical and challenging to manage. What makes it

challenging? Growth in storage demand due to digital

content, e-mail, Internet-based applications and emerg-

ing technology. Complexity of storage networks with

devices from different manufacturers resulting in separate

islands of storage. Pressure to retain data for compliance

with regulations worldwide. Threats to business continu-

ity posed by disaster—even human error, a cause of 40

percent of outages.1

If dealing with storage management strains your bud-

get, you’re not alone. Storage for a typical Fortune 500

company grew from 7 TB in 1996 to 48 TB in 2002, while

storage-related expenditures rose from 11 percent of a

CIO’s budget in 1996 to 17 percent in 2002.2

A better way, available today

What if you could address your storage challenge by

getting more out of your existing storage infrastructure

investment? It’s a different approach than just adding

more capacity, which can add to the challenge.

Picture it: Business continuity even during reconfigurations.

Virtual elimination of backup windows. Recoverability if

disaster occurs. Flexibility to choose products from dif-

ferent manufacturers. A single point of management over

your entire storage network, using your storage and data

resources to their full potential. Excellent productivity of

storage administrators and the potential to reduce errors.

Movement of data across storage devices for optimum

performance with little or no impact to applications. And

movement of data that you need over the long term to

lower-cost devices, while accessing and sharing the

data you need every day.

Can you see it? What you’re envisioning is what we call

an on demand storage environment.

a better wayHelping you build an on demand storage environment:

IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family

An on demand storage environment will ultimately help

to support the goals of your business. And that’s what

the capabilities of the IBM TotalStorage Open Software

Family are designed to help you achieve. Open Software

Family capabilities can be used alone or integrated

together based on your specific business needs as your

storage environment evolves. Each of these capabilities

is designed to help you:

• Enhance personnel productivity so that you can spend

less time managing storage and more time creating

new opportunities

• Optimize storage resource utilization so that you can

become responsive to new business needs at a low cost

• Improve application availability so that you have fewer

application outages, including the ability to introduce

these capabilities to your storage environment with

minimal or no impact to data availability

Open Software Family capabilities include storage

infrastructure management, hierarchical storage

man-agement (HSM), archive and recovery management,

and storage virtualization. You can complement Open

Software Family products with IBM TotalStorage hardware,

planned for future inclusion in storage orchestration

capabilities from IBM Tivoli® software, and education

and financing services for a complete storage solution

from IBM.

Storage infrastructure management

Storage infrastructure management is designed to make

resource sharing possible across the enterprise, including

heterogeneous networks. It helps empower administrators

by providing an integrated view of the entire storage envi-

ronment including software and hardware.

Storage infrastructure management provides insight into

the historic, operational and predictive analytics of the

storage environment that, in turn, can help administrators

improve storage capacity and network utilization, and help

avoid business outages. It also supports policy-based

automation, such as capacity provisioning, performance

optimization and data management, helping to provide

outstanding business agility.

Storage infrastructure management of the Open Software

Family can be enhanced through virtualization, a capabil-

ity that pools and shares enterprise-wide storage assets

to help you optimize utilization and performance, and

improve availability.

software capabilitiesMany of the storage infrastructure management prod-

ucts of the Open Software Family use a common open-

standards interface for management based on the

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage

Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). This gives

you the flexibility to interoperate with products from many

different providers, without having to change the way you

manage your environment.

Hierarchical storage management

Open Software Family HSM capabilities provide a way

to capture low-activity or inactive data and feed it into a

hierarchy of lower-cost or tiered storage. This helps you

control your data storage growth and costs. Automated,

policy-based capabilities determine where data should

be stored, based on factors such as how critical it is to

your business, how accessible and available you want it to

be, and the cost structures of available devices. Support

for a broad range of platforms, spanning from mainframes

to open distributed systems, offers you flexibility in choice

and investment protection. And interoperability with IBM

Content and Records Management products allows

enterprise data to be moved from one medium to another

with efficiency while helping avoid disruptions in service.

Archive management

Manage the cost of capturing point-in-time copies of

important data for regulatory or bookkeeping require-

ments with archive management capabilities of the

Open Software Family. Archive, retain and manage data,

including e-mail. Archive management also provides

HSM capabilities. Archive management productsare

interoperable with many content management products

available in the marketplace, including the IBM DB2®

Content Management family. And they support a wide

variety of storage media, write one read many (WORM)

tape and magnetic disks.

The IBM TotalStorage Data Retention 450 is designed

as a preconfigured, integrated solution to help store,

retrieve, manage, share and secure regulated and

nonregulated data. It uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

for Data Retention for management and enforcement

of data-retention policies. The solution’s policy-based

archive data-retention3 capabilities are designed to

support nonerasable, nonrewritable data storage. Using

an established archive application programming inter-

face (API), it helps address the needs of regulated

industries and other businesses with long-term data-

retention and protection needs.

software capabilitiesRecovery management

These automated tools are designed to help your enter-

prise recover data when and where you need it. They help

you to create and track reliable recovery points of your

most critical enterprise data, based on preset policies.

Through centralized, Web-based management, recov-

ery management capabilities provide intelligent backup

and archiving to help avoid impact on application

availability. They are designed to match the value of pro-

tected data and applications to the most cost-effective

media—whether tape or disk storage. Scalable recovery

management products of the Open Software Family are

designed to help you address a wide range of service

level agreements (SLAs) using the appropriate cost

structure. Automated policy-based data-movement and

intelligent storage techniques are designed to help free up

administrators to work on higher-value tasks and projects.

Storage virtualization

Storage virtualization software is designed to improve

the flexibility and utilization of your storage. Virtualization

works by pooling your storage volumes, files and file

systems into a single reservoir of capacity for centralized

management. This reservoir can include storage capacity

from multiple vendors and platforms in heterogeneous

environments. Virtualization is also designed to reduce

the effects of reconfigurations at the hardware level, to

help support business continuity.

Storage orchestration

Storage orchestration is being designed to help automate

the management of storage environments to meet service

levels or other business policies. Beginning with policy-

based, automated work flows, storage orchestration is

planned to include optional real-time monitoring and intel-

ligence designed to enable autonomic management of

the on demand storage environment. This is intended to

automate complex and error-prone tasks to help reduce or

eliminate human error and associated application outages.

Open Software Family— the power of choice

With the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family, you

can choose from one of the broadest portfolios of storage

infrastructure management and virtualization capabilities

in the industry. And the Open Software Family lets you

choose hardware and software from a wide range of ven-

dors for your infrastructure, IBM or not. That’s because

our products are modular, integrated and interoperable

with many other vendor products based on open industry-

supported standards.

software familyIBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is an open stor-

age infrastructure-management offering designed to help

reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastruc-

tures, and to help improve storage capacity utilization and

administrative efficiency. It is designed to enable an agile

storage infrastructure that can respond to on demand

storage needs.

The Productivity Center comprises a user interface (UI)

designed for ease of use in addition to these components:

• IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager

Designed to automate the capacity management of

file and database resources in a storage infrastructure.

It also offers capabilities for analyzing how effectively

these resources are being used.

• IBM Tivoli SAN Manager

Designed to automate management of a broad range

of devices in a storage network. Offers automatic

resource discovery, event monitoring and alerting, zone

control, and Storage area network (SAN) error-prediction

capabilities.

• IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager

Designed to helps administrators manage a hetero-

geneous SAN environment from a single point. It is

designed to operate with a number of SMI-S enabled

storage devices such as the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise

Storage Server® (ESS) and the IBM TotalStorage FAStT

Family of Servers as well as storage that is virtualized

using the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Tivoli Storage Manager is designed for recovery manage-

ment. It is available in three packages: IBM Tivoli Storage

Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN. Storage Man-

ager Extended Edition also includes Disaster Recovery

Manager and support for Network Data Management

Protocol (NDMP). All three include Operational Reporting

Capabilities. Tivoli Storage Manager products offer one

of the most comprehensive sets of APIs in the industry to

help enable independent software vendors to easily adapt

their solutions to IBM software and to help joint custom-

ers customize, secure and extend the functionality of their

storage environments.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Designed to provide enterprise-level availability of key

data and applications in the event of hardware, software

or network failures. It offers move-and-store techniques

and policy-based automation, designed to work

together to help increase data and application protec-

tion, decrease disaster-recovery time and lower storage

administration costs. It also manages inactive data and

is designed to match the value of the data to the most

cost-effective storage management practices.

software family• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

Contains base functions and added capabilities, includ-

ing tape-library-sharing capabilities among multiple data

protection servers and expanded administration capabil-

ities designed to handle thousands of client computers.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to interoperate

with a wide range of optional, separately orderable mod-

ules for mail, databases, application servers, enterprise

resource planning (ERP) and hardware. The optional

modules for the Tivoli Storage Manager family provide a

high level of application and hardware integration with

the data protection process. They include IBM Tivoli

Storage Manager for Space Management to address

your HSM needs, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for

Data Retention to address your archive needs.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management

Designed to move inactive, rarely accessed data to

less-expensive offline storage or near-line storage. Frees

online disk space for more important, active data, which

remains in the local file system.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Data Retention

Helps manage and simplify retrieval of data that must

be retained for strict regulatory requirements in a flexible

and function-rich manner.

IBM TotalStorage virtualization software

Virtualization software is designed to help improve the

flexibility of your storage infrastructure to address rapidly

changing storage needs. It works with storage infrastruc-

ture management software designed to centralize volume,

file and device management to help improve utilization.

• IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

Designed to virtualize the storage in your network and

centralize management. Designed to help administra-

tors migrate data, and add capacity, performance and

software upgrades without disrupting application avail-

ability. The SAN Volume Controller storage software can

be delivered as an appliance within the SAN Volume

Controller or embedded within the Caching Services

Module of the Cisco MDS 9000 Switch.

• IBM TotalStorage SAN File System4

Designed to virtualize file and data management for

application servers in your network. Automates routine

file and data management tasks through customer-

defined rules or policies, specifying what storage pool

is to be used when a file is created. Helps align the

quality of storage service with the value of your data.

benefitsIBM TotalStorage Productivity Center benefits at a glance

Help improve application Help optimize storage Help enhance storage

availability resource utilization personnel productivity

IBM Tivoli Storage • Designed to help prevent • Designed to conduct data- • Designed to automate

Resource Manager out-of-space conditions base, file system, directory reporting of information

on file and database and file-level analysis and metrics automatically

systems • Designed to identify obsolete archives it so that admin-

or orphan data and auto- istrators can make better,

matically archive it more timely decisions

• Designed to forecast future

growth and at-risk situations

IBM Tivoli • Designed to help predict • Designed to report on • Designed to create a

SAN Manager storage network failures storage network single point of control,

before they happen to performance administration and security

enable preventative for managing heteroge-

maintenance neous storage networks

• Designed to accelerate

problem isolation when

failures do happen

IBM TotalStorage • Designed for effective • Designed to monitor and • Designed to provide

Multiple Device use of disk resources automate replication advanced, heterogeneous

Manager (cache and busy I/O) operations storage management from

• Designed to suspend, • Designed to manage a single console

resume and resynchro- storage devices proactively

nization of replication

operations

benefitsIBM Tivoli Storage Manager Family benefits at a glance

Help improve application Help optimize storage Help enhance storage

availability resource utilization personnel productivity

IBM Tivoli Storage • Designed to help ensure • Designed to help protect • Designed to automate

Manager business continuity and valuable data and business recovery management tasks

recovery while still oper- processes • Reporting designed for

ating your business • Designed to archive inactive ease of administrative tasks

• Designed for disk to disk data to help reduce costs

backup for frequently • Designed as one integrated

accessed information that point of management from

is needed quickly laptop to mainframe optimized

• Designed for integration for local area network (LAN),

with Content Management wide area network (WAN)

application for advanced and SAN

search and audit capabilities

IBM Tivoli Storage • Designed to be able to • Designed to move inactive • Designed to automate HSM

Manager for Space free disk space for more- data to less-expensive devices data movement through

Management active data flexible policies

IBM Tivoli Storage • Designed to enable freeing • Designed to protect data that • Designed to automate

Manager for Data of disk space for more-active must be retained on less archive-management

Retention data expensive devices such as tasks including automatic

• Designed for ease of integra- Serial Advanced Technology expiration of data when

tion with existing applications Attachment (SATA), DVD and retention policy is met

WORM tape with one interface

take the next stepIBM TotalStorage virtualization software benefits at a glance

Help improve application Help optimize storage Help enhance storage

availability resource utilization personnel productivity

IBM TotalStorage • Designed to eliminate or • Designed to aggregate disk • Designed to create a

SAN Volume reduce many of the causes capacity from multiple storage single point of control,

Controller of storage-related downtime systems and enable you administration and security

• Designed to perform data to transparently allocate that for disk volumes

migrations between storage capacity to applications, • Designed to enable

systems with minimal or no when and how you need it physical changes to the

disruptions to applications storage systems without

• Designed to create a common disrupting applications

platform and API for volume

point-in-time and remote

copy services across multiple

storage systems

IBM TotalStorage • Designed to create a common • Designed to help eliminate the • Designed to create a single

SAN File System platform and API for file point- pre-allocation of disk capacity point of control, administra-

in-time copy services to specific host systems or appli- tion and security for file

• File based IBM FlashCopy® cations, pool filespace across management

function can help reduce heterogeneous platforms • Designed to automate

downtime for backups • Designed to allow sharing routine tasks through

• Designed to help reduce or between applications —even rules-based provisioning

eliminate application down- between server platforms and • Designed to perform file

time for file and data manage- help reduce or eliminate the and data maintenance as

ment asks— add, move and need to maintain duplicate data needed without the need

change file system capacity for sharing for planned downtime

nondisruptively • Designed for proactive filespace

management with tools for quota

management

• Designed to define multiple, space

efficient, online recovery points

take the next stepTake the next step

By focusing on evolving your storage infrastructure to

an on demand storage environment, you can address

your storage challenges. The IBM TotalStorage Open

Software Family can help you build an on demand

storage environment. This family of storage software

products offers storage infrastructure management

and virtualization capabilities, along with capabilities in

HSM, archive management and recovery management.

The modular, integrated and open solutions of the Open

Software Family can help you control storage growth

and costs in a flexible environment that can be managed

enterprise-wide using automated processes through

software products based on standard interfaces. An

environment of business continuity in which changes

can be made with minimal or no interruption to your

business applications or the servers on which they run.

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We can assist you in developing and deploying complete,

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