Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 (Non-Platform Software Release C.65.00 (30216-90291)

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Data Center Management
Enterprise Management Solution
Short Term Plans
In the next 1-2 years, we plan to strengthen our basic set of offerings. A very near future
inclusion is providing support for the HP Secure Web Console (SWC). The inclusion of HP
SWC in the list of devices supported by the HP 3000 means that the users have ‘Location
Independence’ for accessing the HP 3000 system console. This is, of course, coupled with a
high level of security to provide a secure access to the system’s console. Please see the
separate article on the SWC for more information.
The data center manager needs to manage all his machines efficiently. It has become a
challenge to manage a heterogeneous geographically dispersed data center cost effectively
and efficiently. We already have the IT/Operations Agent available on MPE/iX. We have
enriched the default environment for the agent very recently. Now the ITO’s default
settings are tuned better with the MPE/iX environment. We believe this should result in
operational convenience for the users. Please see the separate article on the New Default
Templates on the IT/O on MPE/iX for more information.
We are planning to make the Omniback Agent available on MPE/iX shortly. With the
availability of the Omniback 3.1 Agent, we essentially provide the HP 3000 user
community a powerful set of back-up solutions to choose from. We think this adds a great
degree of flexibility for the users to select their choice of backup solution.
To integrate the HP 3000 in a data center for performance measurement purposes, we are
considering providing a powerful performance solution like the Measureware Agent
available on the HP 3000. We may first provide an interim work-around to allow the
existing Scope Collector to smoothly send the measurement data to the central PerfView
console.
Long Term Plans
In the long term, we plan to extend the strength with new and additional capabilities.
With the constantly increasing demand to process more and more data, users are going to
need a solution that allows increased availability of data, increased backup performance,
simplified management of growth, etc. We think our users would eventually move to a SAN
environment. As mentioned earlier, in the long term, we intend to enable the HP 3000 to
integrate seamlessly in the SAN environment.
We plan to start putting various building blocks for SAN support into the base platform.
The list of such ‘building blocks’ includes solutions like - system level integration of key
user applications, simplified/automatic device configuration, simplified database
maintenance, web-based centralized system management, improved (and faster) back-up
for backing up terra bytes of data efficiently, and even tools for simplified and quick
resource planning.