HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

HP Storage Essentials is available through 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.
Related topics
• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View SDM overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View Tape Library overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced Edition overview
• HP StorageWorks 1000 Modular Smart Array overview
Storage device managers
HP SIM allows you to start supported storage device managers from a link on the Tools & Links tab on the
System Page. You can start the following device managers:
• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA
• HP StorageWorks Command View SDM
• HP StorageWorks Command View for Tape Libraries
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced Edition
• HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1000
Related topics
• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View SDM overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View Tape Library overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP overview
• HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced Edition overview
• HP StorageWorks 1000 Modular Smart Array overview
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA overview
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA is a comprehensive software suite designed to simplify, enhance,
and maximize the high-performance HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family of storage array
products.
Command View EVA provides simplicity without comprise as it complements the HP StorageWorks Enterprise
Virtual Array user. It offers storage administrators a single storage management solution for all your Enterprise
Virtual Array management needs. It automates and aggregates storage management to reduce time-consuming
manual tasks. Growing capacity is simple, because you can easily and dynamically expand logical unit
numbers (LUNs) and add physical drives online to quickly meet changing business needs without application
downtime. It provides easy and fast configuration of LUNs and redundant array of independent disk (RAID)
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