HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

Overview4
dependencies and view and manage your infrastructure as a whole. A SAN is a network
configuration that is dedicated to transporting storage data among network devices, such as
storage systems, servers, tape libraries, and switches. Since the SAN is dedicated to transporting
storage data, it frees up the data network for regular TCP/IP traffic.
This product gives 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 server's integrated storage management lowers your cost of acquiring and
managing a heterogeneous storage environment.
Key Benefits
• More efficient use of existing assets
• Increased application availability and performance
• Quicker deployment of storage infrastructure and business applications
• Protection of customer flexibility and investments with a standards-based interface
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.
• Storage Management Initiative (SMI) — A SNIA standard for implementing data storage
management using CIM.
See the glossary in this user guide for additional definitions.
Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition
HP Storage Essentials is available in a Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. HP Storage
Essentials Standard Edition provides a subset of the functionality of HP Storage Essentials Enterprise
Edition. Some of the features available in Enterprise Edition can be purchased separately for
Standard Edition. To determine which features apply to your product, see the List of Features. For a
list of the devices supported by Standard Edition, see the HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition
Support Matrix. The List of Features and the support matrix are accessible from the Documentation
Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
Table 2 on page 4 describes which chapters in this guide apply to Standard Edition:
Table 2 Chapters That Apply to Standard Edition
Chapter Name Applies to Standard Edition?
Overview, page 1 Yes