HP Storage Area Manager User Manual
QuickSpecs
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
Overview
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) software simplifies and automates the management of your storage resources, infrastructure and application
capacity. It manages both, tape and disk, direct-attached and network storage, across multi-vendor devices, operating systems and distributed environments.
From its central console, it allows you to effectively monitor and manage storage and storage service availability, performance, usage, cost, and growth,
helping you to gain control of your storage while optimizing your resources and cost.
The HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) software suite consists of five components: device management; capacity management; performance
management; storage allocation and virtualized access control, and storage usage metering and billing. Each component functions either individually or
together to enable integrated storage resource, application capacity and infrastructure management. This highly flexible "building block" architecture and
out-of the box integration capabilities ensure rapid deployment and quick return on investment, while allowing an enterprise to address its most urgent
management problems first.
To move toward integrated service-driven storage management, Storage Area Manager enables you to define, monitor, and measure storage service levels
and view storage services as an integral part of the overall IT service. This helps you to guarantee quality of services and increase the value of your storage
investments.
What's New
What's New
What's NewWhat's New
SAM 3.1 introduces additional operating system (OS) support including OpenVMS and NetWare, and expands the supported devices ecosystem. It also
introduces applications views within the Storage Builder module for monitoring, managing, and planning the growth of Oracle and Exchange capacity.
Models
Models
ModelsModels
Storage Area Manager
Storage Area Manager
Storage Area ManagerStorage Area Manager
(SAM) suite media
(SAM) suite media
(SAM) suite media(SAM) suite media
Storage Node Manager
Storage Node Manager
Storage Node ManagerStorage Node Manager
(SNM)
(SNM)
(SNM)(SNM)
Storage Optimizer
Storage Optimizer
Storage OptimizerStorage Optimizer
Storage Builder
Storage Builder
Storage BuilderStorage Builder
Storage Accountant
Storage Accountant
Storage AccountantStorage Accountant
Storage Allocater
Storage Allocater
Storage AllocaterStorage Allocater
SAM suite media
SAM, 1TB LTU license for SAM suite
SAM, 5 TB LTU license for SAM suite
SAM, 10 TB LTU license for SAM suite
SAM, 50 TB LTU license for SAM suite
SNM, 1 TB LTU license
SNM, 5 TB LTU license
SNM, 10 TB LTU license
SNM, 50 TB LTU license
Storage Optimizer, 1 TB LTU license
Storage Optimizer, 5 TB LTU license
Storage Optimizer, 10 TB LTU license
Storage Optimizer, 50 TB LTU license
Storage Builder, 1 TB LTU license
Storage Builder, 5 TB LTU license
Storage Builder, 10 TB LTU license
Storage Builder, 50 TB LTU license
Storage Accountant, 1 TB LTU license
Storage Accountant, 5 TB LTU license
Storage Accountant, 10 TB LTU license
Storage Accountant, 50 TB LTU license
Storage Allocater, 1 TB LTU license
Storage Allocater, 5 TB LTU license
Storage Allocater, 10 TB LTU license
Storage Allocater, 50 TB LTU license
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Overview
Kit Contents
Kit Contents
Kit ContentsKit Contents
Installation Guide
Administrator's Guide
Storage Area Manager tutorial CD
Customer Benefits
Customer Benefits
Customer BenefitsCustomer Benefits
Business Value
Business Value
Business ValueBusiness Value
Simplified, Automated
Simplified, Automated
Simplified, AutomatedSimplified, Automated
Operations
Operations
OperationsOperations
Centralized Management
Centralized Management
Centralized ManagementCentralized Management
Optimized Resource
Optimized Resource
Optimized ResourceOptimized Resource
Utilization
Utilization
UtilizationUtilization
Maximized Availability
Maximized Availability
Maximized AvailabilityMaximized Availability
Optimized Performance
Optimized Performance
Optimized PerformanceOptimized Performance
Customized Service
Customized Service
Customized ServiceCustomized Service
Offering
Offering
OfferingOffering
Growth Path for the Future
Growth Path for the Future
Growth Path for the FutureGrowth Path for the Future
Increases operational efficiency through centralized, simplified and automated management and
onitoring of multi-vendor enterprise-wide storage resources, applications and infrastructure.
Decreases Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Increases resource utilization.
Increases customer satisfaction through guaranteed quality of storage services.
Provides a transparent growth path for the future.
Seamlessly integrated software suite for maximum leverage of management and monitoring capabilities.
Intuitive, easy-to-use tools and automated wizards to drive staff efficiency and shorten learning curve.
Automated device discovery and topology mapping to graphically display devices and their physical and redundant
connections.
Switch zoning presentation and management for effective and simplified administration.
Continuous health status and event monitoring to quickly isolate and solve problems.
Secure management through firewalls to provide management flexibility.
Automated reporting to save time and increase QoS.
Volume management to enable mapping of host utilization to LUN consumption.
Support for multi-vendor devices and OSs to simplify management of heterogeneous storage.
Out-of-the box integration with enterprise management solutions to enable integrated service management.
Central console and common reporting structure to manage and monitor storage [service] availability, performance,
usage, cost and growth.
Common launch platform for devices to enable centralization of storage management functions.
Manager-of-Managers capabilities to centralize management of separate or geographically distributed sites.
Automated identification of wasted or stale storage to free up capacity.
Monitor, manage and plan growth of Oracle and Exchange capacity via a single pane of glass.
Usage metering and billing to recover cost for delivering storage services.
Magnitude increase of operational efficiency through simplified, automated, painless management of the enterprise
storage resources and infrastructure.
Unique storage service management capabilities to enable storage to be managed and monitored as an integral
component of the overall enterprise IT service.
Inventory of allocated vs. unallocated and used vs. free storage by host, storage device, LUN, partition, volume,
directory, and user.
Automated capacity threshold warning system for early notification of potential capacity shortfalls.
Historical trending and future extrapolations to enable service stability and just-in-time capacity allocation.
Assessment of customer usage and consumption patterns to anticipate future storage/service demands.
Logical, online storage provisioning for storage allocation without impact on operations.
Virtualized storage access control to provide highest levels of data integrity.
Automated host access notification to ensure your data is safe from network intruders.
User-roles for better customization and of your management environment.
Performance monitoring to identify bottlenecks before they impact business operations.
Baselining and over-baseline notification to help identify potential slowdowns before they happen.
Classification of storage service offerings to better align storage usage with business value and needs.
Billing and charge-back.
Storage usage metering and billing to recover your cost for providing storage services.
Broad range of multi-vendor device and system support to seamlessly manage existing and future storage and
maximize your storage investments.
Modular, building block product structure and additive capacity tier licenses.
A unique service-driven management approach to enable you to take the next step towards providing storage utility
services.
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
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Software Support
Software Pre-requisites
Software Pre-requisites
Software Pre-requisitesSoftware Pre-requisites
Software Warranty
Software Warranty
Software WarrantySoftware Warranty
Software Licensing
Software Licensing
Software LicensingSoftware Licensing
Adobe Acrobat Reader (to read product install and admin guides)
Device Managers for each managed device (arrays, switches, tape libraries, etc.)
Microsoft Internet Explorer - or - Netscape Navigator
Performance Metrics:
Warranty code 3U; duration of limited warranty: 90 days from the day of purchase, replacement of defective media
The software licenses are based on terabytes (TB) of storage capacity managed by SAM. The application product comes with
a license-to-use (LTU) to manage 1, 5, 10, or 50 TB and the first year of 8x5 support. The media product comes with SAM
software on CD and documentation. Installation keys are shipped when HP OpenView Storage Area Manager suite or
individual [tier-] product numbers are ordered. These keys must be registered to convert them to permanent "operational
keys". Storage Area Manager utilizes two types of licenses: installation and operational.
Installation licenses are included on the entitlement Certificate that is delivered with the software. These licenses enables
you to use Storage Area Manager or the individual SAM product for 60 days after initial installation, which allows you time
to request, receive and install your operational license(s); and evaluate each Storage Area Manager applications.
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
Storage Optimizer relies on HBA SNIA libraries to gather performance information for hosts.
OpenView Performance Agents (OVPA) or OpenView Operations (OVO}) provide additional metrics. SNIA
libraries are available, at no cost, with all major operating systems. If both OVPA and OVO (both are
purchased items) are to be present, OVPA most be installed first.
Storage Optimizer may also leverage performance reporting tools for collecting device-specific performance
data. For example, HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor XP is required for performance metrics from the
HP XP array family.
Features
Features
FeaturesFeatures
The HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) software suite consists of five components: HP OpenView Storage Node Manager (device management); HP
OpenView Storage Builder (capacity management); HP OpenView Storage Optimizer (performance management); HP OpenView Storage Allocater (storage
allocation and virtualized access control); and HP OpenView Storage Accountant (storage usage metering and billing). Each component functions either
individually or together to enable integrated storage resource, application capacity and infrastructure management. This highly flexible "building block"
architecture and out-of the box integration capabilities ensure rapid deployment and quick return on investment, while allowing an enterprise to address its
most urgent management problems first.
Storage Node Manager
Storage Node Manager
Storage Node ManagerStorage Node Manager
Storage Builder
Storage Builder
Storage BuilderStorage Builder
Storage Optimizer
Storage Optimizer
Storage OptimizerStorage Optimizer
Automated discovery, mapping, monitoring, and management of devices through firewalls across distributed,
multi-vendor SAN, NAS, and DAS environments.
Continuous health monitoring and real-time event status information.
Graphical zone presentation.
Manager of Manager (MoM) functionality for centralized management of large environments.
Common launch platform for central device management.
Storage allocation and utilization views by application, host, device, user, directory, volumes, LUN.
Monitor, manage and plan growth of Oracle and Exchange capacity via a single pane of glass.
Historical trending and future extrapolations.
Reports, graphs, and charts for capacity management and planning.
Automated notification of capacity threshold violations.
Application/Host utilization to LUN mapping for improved understanding of environment.
Monitoring of host, storage, and infrastructure performance
Automated baselining, threshold determination, and over-baseline notification
Storage performance reporting, historical trending, and analysis
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Software Support
Storage Accountant
Storage Accountant
Storage AccountantStorage Accountant
Storage Allocater
Storage Allocater
Storage AllocaterStorage Allocater
Supported Applications
Supported Applications
Supported ApplicationsSupported Applications
Usage metering, automated calculation and billing based on assigned storage.
Reporting, financial analysis, budgeting, cost management and charge-back.
Management of service levels and price tiers based on storage and services associated with it.
Enables customer- or device-based reporting.
Enables virtualized access control between host and multi-vendor storage (RAID, JBOD, tape)
Allows drag-and-drop LUN assignment and reassignment without system reboot
Provides automated configuration wizard to reduce deployment time
Offers automated notification of unauthorized host access
Oracle 8i (8.0, 8.1), 9i (9.0, 9.2) all 32- and 64-bit versions
Exchange 2000
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) 3.1
HP-UX 11.0, 11.11
Sun Solaris 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Data Center (SP3)
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation, Server, and Enterprise Server (all SP6a)
Tru64 UNIX V4.0F, V5.1A
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server
Volume Managers
Volume Managers
Volume ManagersVolume Managers
Cluster Management
Cluster Management
Cluster ManagementCluster Management
Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
HP-UX 11.0, 11.11
IBM AIX 4.3.3, 5.1
Logical Storage Manager (LSM)
Tru64 UNIX 4.0f, 5.1a, 5.1b
OpenVMS 7.3, 7.3-1
Veritas VxVM
HP-UX 11.11
SUN Solaris 7 & 8
Windows 2000
MC Service Guard
HP-UX 11.0, 11.11
Microsoft Cluster Server
Windows NT Enterprise Edition
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2003 Enterprise Web Server
Veritas Cluster Server for SUN Solaris
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