HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 installation guide (T4283-96011, January 2006)

Overview4
About this Product
This product can simplify your complex environment and lower your cost of management with
CIM-based integrated storage management. The management software integrates the management
of applications, servers, storage networks and storage subsystems in a single, easy to implement
and intuitive solution.
The management software integrates the various components in the storage infrastructure into a
CIM/WBEM/SMI-S standards based database so you can eliminate any vendor dependencies and
view and manage your infrastructure as a whole.
By giving your administrators a single, integrated console to manage tactical activities such as
provisioning storage, managing real time events, installing new applications, and migrating servers
and storage, as well as strategic activities such as forecasting, planning and cost analysis, the
management software's integrated storage management lowers your cost of acquiring and
managing a heterogeneous storage environment.
Storage Management Terms
• CIM - A common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall
management information in a network/enterprise environment.
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) - An initiative based on a set of management
and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing
environments.
See the glossary in the management server User Guide or in the management server help system for
additional definitions.
Key Benefits
• More efficient use of existing assets
• Increased application availability and performance
10 If your license lets you collect disk drive
statistics from Engenio storage systems,
set up the management server to
collect those statistics.
You can determine if you license lets
you collect this data, by accessing the
feature list, which is accessible from
the Documentation Center (Help >
Documentation Center in Storage
Essentials).
See ”Obtaining Disk Drive Statistics from
Engenio Storage Systems” on page 223.
11 Change the password of the system
accounts.
See ”Changing the Password of System
Accounts” on page 245.
Table 2 Roadmap for Installation and Initial Configurations (continued)
Step Description Where to Find