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Hitachi HiCommand Storage Services Manager (HSSM)

Perhaps the seminal need in the IT center is the need to manage storage assets from the application to the storage and be able to provision storage accordingly. Hitachi HiCommand® Storage Services Manager (HSSM) permits this ability and more from a “single pane of glass” perspective. The HSSM suite includes:

HiCommand Chargeback for asset management

HiCommand Global Reporting for gathering separate reports from different HSSM servers

HiCommand Path Provisioning automates the difficult job of storage allocation

HiCommand QoS a series of modules for Storage Resource Management (SRM) for the following needs:

HiCommand QoS for File Servers
HiCommand QoS for Microsoft Exchange
HiCommand QoS for Oracle
HiCommand QoS for Sybase

In addition to the above Hitachi HiCommand products include the following modules specific to HDS storage:

HiCommand Device Manager for specific management and configuration of HDS storage such as the 9500V series Thunder products.

HiCommand Tuning Manager for performance and capacity monitoring, forcasting, and reporting

Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager provides load balancing anf failover capability

Hitachi Performance Maximizer Package includes a comprehensive ability to perform active monitoring and tuning and includes these packages: Hitachi Performance Monitor, Hitachi Server Priority Manager, and Hitachi Volume Migration

Hitachi Resource Manager provides basic storage management to a single HDS storage system

Hitachi Universal Volume Manager virtualization tool used to provide a single storage pool

Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager permits logical partitioning of ports, cache and disk (parity groups) into independently managed Private Virtual Storage Machines (PVSM) on the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform.

CA Unicenter Integration Module

For more information on the entire HSSM suite from Hitachi click here.