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5Using Storage Area Manager on the Storage Management Appliance Application Notes
Overview
It is now possible to employ the powerful storage management features of HP OpenView
Storage Area Manager on the HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance. These two
products provide diverse management capabilities for your storage area network (SAN).
Storage Management Appliance software v2.0 supports Storage Area Manager v3.0; Storage
Management Appliance software v2.1 supports Storage Area Manager v3.0 or v3.1.
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager
HP OpenView Storage Area Manager is a client/server software suite that provides centralized
storage monitoring and management capabilities.
The Storage Area Manager environment includes a management server, one or more clients,
and one or more SAN hosts. The management server software can be installed on a
Windows 2000 server, including now a Storage Management Appliance. The management
client is a Windows 2000, Windows XP, HP-UX, Linux, or Sun Solaris host on which the
Storage Area Manager user interface is installed. You access and run Storage Area Manager
from the management clients. The host agent software is installed on each SAN host to which
an interconnect or storage device is connected. The host agent enables communication
between the server and the storage devices. Host agent software can be installed on
Windows NT, Windows 2000, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux hosts.
In addition, Storage Area Manager v3.1 host agents are available for Windows 2003,
Open VMS, and Netware.
The Storage Area Manager software suite consists of five applications that provide storage
resource and infrastructure management:
■ HP OpenView Storage Node Manager for device management
■ HP OpenView Storage Builder for capacity management
■ HP OpenView Storage Optimizer for performance management
■ HP OpenView Storage Accountant for metering and billing
■ HP OpenView Storage Allocater for access control and storage allocation
More information on Storage Area Manager is available on the SAM website at:
http://h18006 .www1.hp.com/pr oducts/storage/software/sam /inde x.html
and the eCare website at:
http://support.ope nview.hp.com
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HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance
The HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance is a centralized, appliance-based
monitoring and management solution for the SAN. You can access the SMA software from
anywhere in the SAN through a supported Web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape). The
SMA software lets you organize, configure, and monitor storage components from a single
Web-based navigation point. The SMA software also provides a launch site for a variety of
core and optional HP storage management applications, including:
■ Command View EVA (previously named HSV Element Manager) for managing and
configuring RAID array systems that are based on HSV controllers
■ HSG Element Manager for managing and configuring RAID array systems that are based
on HSG controllers