HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.3.1-00 User Guide

1 Overview of HP StorageWorks P9000
Command View Advanced Edition Suite
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite is a comprehensive software suite
providing management services for storage systems and hosts. Storage configuration, virtualization,
reporting, and monitoring tools are fully supported.
About HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced
Edition Suite
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software is a group of storage
management software products that allow you to manage storage resources in large-scale, complex
SAN environments.
Command View AE Suite includes:
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Device Manager software
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager software
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor software
• HP StorageWorks P9000 Replication Manager software
Features
HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software includes the following
functionality:
• Registration of storage systems
• Registration of hosts
• LUN path management between hosts and storage
• Volume provisioning and allocation
• Virtualization of volumes from external storage
• Virtualization of storage capacity allocation using THP pools
• Volume replication using copy-pairs
• Logical grouping of related storage resources and hosts by application
• Keyword and criteria based searching of storage resources
• Storage resource reporting and output to CSV files
• User roles for shared management and secure access to storage resources
• Security tools to prevent unauthorized access, such as account locking, and restricted login retry
attempts
• License management for Command View AE Suite software
If you have an HP StorageWorks P9000 Tiered Storage Manager license, you can:
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