Recently, HPlaunched HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Manager (SRM) software 6.2, a new enhancement to the Business Service Automation (BSA) portfolio. HP designed HP Storage Essentials 6.2 to help organisations increase performance monitoring, reduce management costs in heterogeneous environments and ultimately manage storage more efficiently.
Dataplex being heavily focused on storage see the following three components as key:
Storage Resource Management and Disaster-Recovery Environments
Storage networks have grown rapidly in recent years, increasing the critical need for proper management processes. A well executed strategy gives administrators better visibility into their infrastructure, optimised capacity planning and overall stronger performance. While many enterprises have multiple management tools from myriad of vendors, HP Storage Essentials 6.2 is a single SRM solution for heterogeneous environments. It improves resource utilisation, lowers management costs and increases the quality of services to help drive goals for the business.
With the HP Storage Essentials 6.2 release organisations can now manage storage in a disaster-recovery environment. It is well known that the availability of key application services and information is critical to maintaining business process in today's environment, and any outage has far reaching consequences on the business operation as a whole.
More often than not, organisations have multiple replication technologies within the environment. This leads to poor visibility and lack of capacity management, ultimately limiting efficiency and impeding SLA compliance. HP Storage Essentials 6.2 helps organisations reach a resolution, enabling auto-discovery, mapping capabilities, reporting and management of replication environments.
Architecture Options
Organisations used to have to choose a tool based on their requirement for an agent-rich or agent-less architectures, but now they are no longer limited to one option over the other. The new release of HP Storage Essentials lets organisations pick their architecture (agent-less, agent-rich or hybrid). An agent less deployment delivers quicker time to value and requires less people cycles due to lack of agent life cycle management. An agent rich deployment delivers reports, forecasts and analysis in the context of applications and host volumes. So depending on the situation HP Storage Essentials 6.2 can be deployed in a agent less mode or agent rich mode or just a perfect blend of it.
Storage Automation
Are you intrigued by the idea of an internal storage cloud but wary of the potential disruption to your data centre? HP Storage Essentials 6.2 is your platform to build a simple, internal storage cloud using your existing SAN to automate storage service delivery without any changes to your existing IT infrastructure. HP Storage Essentials 6.2 allows you to quickly and easily set up a simple service catalogue to provide fully automated, on-demand access to a range of IT services to efficiently manage your SAN and virtual hosts.
You can leverage HP Business Service Automation (BSA) Server Automation, HP Storage Essentials and HP Operations Orchestration to order and provision a VM with operating system, application, and SAN storage in a fully heterogeneous environment.