Product guide

6 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Introduction
The Solution
The EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.x family of storage management software provides an
end-to-end solution for multivendor storage reporting, monitoring, configuration, and
control. With Ionix ControlCenter, you can
see the elements of your IT infrastructure
(both hardware and software),
know how your infrastructure is performing, and do
what's necessary to ensure that service levels are met—for better performance,
improved productivity, and reduced costs.
Use Case Scenarios
To supplement the product user documentation, EMC provides this book of use case
scenarios
. Unlike a product guide, which covers the entire range of features and
capabilities, each chapter looks at just a small slice of Ionix ControlCenter
functionality—that subset of Ionix ControlCenter you will use to answer specific
questions such as “
How do I know what I have?”, “How do I monitor what I have?”,
and “How can I control and manage what I have?” This book assumes that Ionix
ControlCenter is already installed and configured.
Each use case has a small-to-medium datacenter environment, with multiple arrays,
switches, databases, and hosts. However, it has none of the complexity associated
with clustering, multiple networks, or firewalls that you might have implemented in
your datacenter.
Who Should Use This Use Case Scenarios Book?
This use case scenarios book serves as a model for the methods of using Ionix
ControlCenter to improve your business and operational processes. It also
demonstrates how Ionix ControlCenter can be used to accomplish the tasks around
managing a datacenter.