Application Use Cases for the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, November 2009

Feature Function Benefit HP Storage Management
Suite bundle
Oracle SmartSnyc Support
(with ODM)
Improves Oracle runtime
and recovery performance
with mirrored volumes via
ODM configuration
Improved performance T2773xx, T2774xx,
T8686xx, T2777xx
Portable Data Containers Easily and quickly converts
data for use on different
operating systems
Makes migrating to new
operating systems easy,
enables multi-platform
off-host processing, and
reduces migration cost
and time
All bundles
Site Awareness/Remote
mirroring
Allows storage devices at
each site in the cluster to
know in which site they are
physically residing be it a
campus or stretch cluster
Ensures that storage
configuration changes are
only done on one site and
protects data integrity when
communication is lost
between the 2 sites
T2774xx, T2775xx,
T8686xx, T2777xx
(New with version A.02.00)
Storage Checkpoint and
Rollback
Create disk-based backups
or file systems instantly
without adding storage.
The back up can be easily
restored by the user
Reduced system and
network overhead during
backup, reduced
unplanned downtime, and
faster recovery
All bundles
Storage Expert Analyzes volume layout
and compares against
best practices
Improved performance and
reliability
All bundles
Storage Mapping Uses the Oracle 9i Rel 2
STORAGE_MAPPING I/O
library to map logical
Oracle objects down the
storage stack; identifies hot
spots and tunes
performance of disk arrays
Simplifies management and
troubleshooting of the
Oracle storage environment
T2774xx, T8686xx,
T2777xx
(New for SGCFSRAC
A.02.00)
Storage provisioning
templates
Automatically provisions
and grows storage based
on user-defined templates
Creates company-wide
consistency, speeds storage
configuration, and removes
storage configuration errors
All bundles
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