EMC has announced the availability of its EMC VisualSRM and EMC VisualSAN mid-tier storage management software, architected to help small and medium-sized organisations simplify and automate their networked storage environments.
"Easy to install and simple to use, the Visual family of open software enables administrators to get more out of their storage assets by centralising management, improving capacity utilisation and automating previously burdensome storage resource management (SRM) and storage area network (SAN) management tasks," says Alex Robertson, Technology Solutions Group Manager, EMC SA.
Designed to improve capacity utilisation and availability, VisualSRM is storage agnostic open management software that offers file-level reporting and centralised storage resource management across all of an organisation`s major storage and server platforms.
VisualSRM supports a wide range of applications, including Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server databases. It also integrates with other storage management applications from backup and framework vendors such as IBM, Veritas, HP, CA and BMC.
"VisualSRM provides organisations with a powerful solution to efficiently manage their information throughout its lifecycle. It empowers administrators to track system and individual storage consumption and enforce capacity utilisation thresholds, ensuring capacity is available when and where needed," says Robertson.
"It also allows administrators to set policies for moving, deleting, compressing, and archiving files based on the age of the information, the time since the file was last accessed and pre-defined capacity thresholds." Reducing the complexity and cost of mid-size SAN environments, VisualSAN provides administrators with a single view of all devices across their storage networks and delivers advanced network, performance and configuration management capabilities.
The VisualSAN management suite includes three modules:
* VisualSAN Network Manager is the base VisualSAN application for monitoring independent SAN devices. It serves as a common interface for the integration of other modules.
* VisualSAN Configuration Manager allows administrators to capture the state of a SAN configuration at a point in time for comparison, historical reference, change management, asset management and replication of a specific SAN topology.
* VisualSAN Performance Manager provides live and historical analysis of link statistics across a SAN.
"Architected for open SAN management, EMC VisualSAN currently supports EMC CLARiiON networked storage systems and will extend support for additional mid-tier storage platforms upon finalisation of the Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S)," Robertson says.
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