IBM DS4300 Portable Media Storage User Manual


 
IBM TotalStorage Expert Family
Adds value to the storage subsystem solution by providing information for better management.
Product Function and Value
IBM TotalStorage
ESS Expert
Provides storage administrators with the capability to manage the
performance of the IBM Enterprise Storage Server; this innovative
tool furnishes storage asset and capacity management capabilities to
centrally manage Enterprise Storage Servers located across the
enterprise
IBM TotalStorage
ETL Expert
Provides a high-performance monitoring tool to help simplify the
management of IBM tape subsystems that include the IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Library,Virtual Tape Server and Peer-to-
Peer Virtual Tape Server
IBM TotalStorage
Management
Toolkit
Offers a collection of products designed to provide a comprehensive
menu of solutions to meet the storage management requirements of
z/OS customers
IBM TotalStorage
XRC Performance
Monitor
Provides the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of a
running XRC configuration; the monitor function provides information
at the real-time, historic and summary levels
DFSMS Family
Provides automated and central storage management in the z/OS environment
Product Function and Value
DFSMSdfp™ Provides data access, program and device management functions
that furnish effective management of active data
DFSMSdss™ Provides data movement, copy,backup and space management
functions
DFSMShsm™ Provides backup,recovery,migration and space management func-
tions that furnish effective management of inactive data
DFSMSrmm™ Provides a policy-driven solution for the management of removable
media,such as tape cartridges and reels
DFSORT™ Provides a solution for faster and easier data sorting, reporting and
analysis
DFSMStvs Enables batch jobs and CICS® (Customer Information Control
Systems) online transactions to update shared VSAM data sets con-
currently
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Function and Value Highlights
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to provide protection
of your 24x7 applications and key data in the event of hard-
ware,software or network failures.It offers move-and-store
techniques and policy-based automation,which are
designed to work together to help increase data and applica-
tion protection,decrease disaster recovery time and lower
storage administration costs. It manages inactive data, help-
ing you match the value of the data to the most cost-effec-
tive storage management practices.Tivoli Storage Manager
is designed to scale easily to protect hundreds of computers
running a dozen operating systems ranging from laptops to
mainframes and connected together via the Internet,WANs,
LANs or SANs.Tivoli Storage Manager also offers open,
easy-to-use APIs designed to enable ISVs to more easily
adapt their solutions to IBM software, helping to allow joint
customers to customize,better secure and extend the func-
tionality of their storage
environment.
Designed to protect valu-
able data in the most cost-
effective manner
Designed to archive inac-
tive data to help reduce
costs
Designed to help ensure
continuity and recovery
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
Product Function and Value Highlights
TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Disk
(Formerly
known as
IBM
TotalStorage
Multiple
Device
Manager)
In a pooled or virtualized SAN envi-
ronment,multiple devices work
together to create a storage solution.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
for Disk is designed to provide inte-
grated administration, optimization
and replication features for these vir-
tualization solutions.
Designed to help reduce the com-
plexity and cost of storage man-
agement while improving data
availability
Offers centralized,open stan-
dards–based management of stor-
age devices
Designed to help enhance storage
administrator productivity
Offers proactive management of
storage devices
Designed to monitor and automate
replication operations across stor-
age devices
TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Replication
(Formerly
known
as IBM
TotalStorage
MDM
Replication
Manager)
TotalStorage Productivity Center For
Replication is designed to simplify
and automate the configuration of
your replication environment allowing
for more effective Peer-to-Peer
Remote Copy (PPRC) and IBM
FlashCopy management. It is also
designed to monitor copy operations
across devices to support a replica-
tion environment.
Automates the configuration of
your ESS advanced copy services
(FlashCopy and PPRC)
Monitors and manages the ESS
copy operations to ensure success-
ful completion from your source
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IBM
TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Data
(Formerly
known as
IBM Tivoli
Storage
Resource
Manager)
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
for Data is an intelligent console for
storage environments that provide a
set of policy-driven automated tools
for managing storage capacity,avail-
ability,events,performance and
assets,including DAS,NAS and SAN
technologies.
Designed to help leverage and opti-
mize existing storage resources
and perform storage management
with a high level of control
Designed to help maximize storage
utilization
Designed to be able to manage
more storage with the same staff
IBM
TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Fabric (for-
merly known
as IBM Tivoli
SAN
Manager)
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
for Fabric is designed to help auto-
mate the management of heteroge-
neous storage networks and works
with a broad range of devices,so
businesses can leverage and better
use existing technology investments.
It is designed to provide comprehen-
sive management of physical and
logical configurations for multi-vendor
SANs with automatic resource discov-
ery, event monitoring and alerting,
zone control and SAN error-prediction
capabilities.
Designed to help predict storage
network failures before they hap-
pen,enabling preventative
maintenance
Designed to help accelerate prob-
lem isolation when failures occur
Designed to report on storage net-
work performance
Designed to create a single point of
control,administration and security
for the management of heteroge-
neous storage networks