HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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access to documentation.

HP Storage Essentials overview

HP Storage Essentials is a suite of value-added plug-ins that offer advanced heterogeneous storage

management functionality including storage area network (SAN) management, storage resource management,

provisioning, and application infrastructure monitoring. HP Storage Essentials includes a core product and

the following modules:

• Enterprise Edition. Main console for open, heterogeneous SAN management

Note: Enterprise Edition is required to have access to the remaining modules

• Provisioning Manager. Heterogeneous host-to-array path provisioning wizard

• Chargeback Manager. Asset-based chargeback management and tier assignment

• Oracle Viewer. Oracle database availability and performance views

• Exchange Viewer. Exchange database availability and performance views

• Sybase Viewer. Sybase database availability and performance views

• File System Viewer. File system scanning to reclaim wasted space

• Global Reporter. Roll-up reporting of multiple HP Storage Essentials Server instances

• Report Designer. Develop customer reports for storage infrastructure

Storage Essentials uses the latest industry standards, such as J2EE, SMI-S, WBEM, and WMI, to ensure that

your storage management infrastructure is extendable and will support both HP and third-party technology,

which enables you to use the technology appropriate to your needs and avoid vendor lock-in.

HP Storage Essentials is available through HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) from the Tools, Deploy,

Diagnose, Optimize, Reports, Tasks & Logs, and Options menus. See your HP Storage Essentials

documentation for details about these menu items.

The HP Storage Essentials Agent Deployment Pack is available to streamline the Storage Essentials CIM

Extensions installation. The deployment pack enables you to use HP SIM to install the Storage Essentials CIM

extensions on remote hosts. You must install the CIM extensions on your storage hosts to use them with

Storage Essentials. For more information about the deployment pack, see version 5.00.01 and later of the

HP Storage Essentials Installation Guide

. The HP Storage Essentials documentation is available at http://

h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/

DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&lang=en&cc=us&docIndexId=179111&taskId=101&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=463512.

See “Changes to HP SIM storage functionality when HP Storage Essentials is installed” for information about

the changes that occur in HP SIM when HP Storage Essentials is installed.