IBM Spectrum Control formerly known as Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is a Storage Resource Management software offering that provides a centralized point of control for managing large-scale, complex heterogeneous storage environments. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2.x was renamed in V5.2.8 to IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition V5.2.x.
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IBM Spectrum Control
IBM Spectrum Control is designed to provide the foundation for storage service level management by offering storage system and SAN performance and availability management. This includes connectivity reporting between file systems and physical disk as well as SAN and disk subsystem failure and audit logging. Key features include: IBM Spectrum Control components can be ordered as a bundled suite or ordered separately based on specific needs of the IT manager. The individual components include:
IBM Spectrum Control for Data includes the same key features as Basic Edition. In addition, Spectrum Control for Data provides a wide range of enterprise reports, monitoring and alerts, policy-based action and file-system capacity automation in a heterogeneous environment. Spectrum Control for Data is designed to help improve capacity utilization of file systems and databases and add intelligence to data protection and retention practices. Spectrum Control for Data provides a single interface to manage storage assets. It can help IT administrators identify, evaluate, control and predict storage usage. It also is designed to enable management of key aspects of the storage infrastructure: capacity, assets, events and availability. Spectrum Control for Data offers active, policy-based management for an automated, self-healing approach to storage resource management. Through monitoring, Spectrum Control for Data detects when a user-defined threshold has been reached, and extend the file system, to help prevent a potential outage. It is designed to enable IT administrators to define and enforce storage policies. It provides event management, which you can use to help fix or avoid storage outages. Key features include:
IBM Spectrum Control for Disk
IBM Spectrum Control for Disk includes the same key features as Spectrum Control Basic Edition. In addition, Spectrum Control for Disk offers device management, configuration and disk performance management. Spectrum Control for Disk is designed to enable device configuration and management of SAN-attached devices from a single console. It offers performance management capabilities, including thresholds and gauges, that allows proactive management of storage performance. It is designed to allow a user to gather and analyze historical and real-time performance metrics for IBM Enterprise Storage Server, DS8000, DS6000, DS5000, DS4000, XIV, SVC and IBM N series. Key features include:
IBM Spectrum Control for Replication includes the same key features as Spectrum Control Basic Edition. In addition, Spectrum Control for Replication is designed to help simplify copy services management for IBM System Storage DS6000, DS8000, SVC and IBM ESS. Spectrum Control for Replication is designed to control and monitor copy services operations in storage environments. It also provides advanced copy services functions for supported storage subsystems on the SAN. Key features include:
IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition
IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition is a bundled offering at a reduced price that combines the benefits of: In addition to the benefits and features of Data, Disk and Basic Edition, Spectrum Control Standard Edition offers additional management, control and performance reporting for the fibre channel SAN infrastructure. These features include the following benefits:
