Administrator Guide
Storage Manager Features
Storage Manager provides the following features.
Storage Management Features
Storage Manager provides the following storage management features.
Storage Center Management
Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage multiple Storage Centers. For each Storage Center, you can congure volumes, snapshot
proles, and storage proles. You can also present congured storage to servers by dening server objects and mapping volumes to them.
Related link
Storage Center Administration
PS Group Management
Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your PS Groups. For each PS Group, you can congure volumes, snapshots, and
replications between a PS Group and Storage Center. You can also congure access policies to grant volume access to hosts.
FluidFS Cluster Management
Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your FluidFS clusters and monitor FluidFS cluster status and performance. A FluidFS
cluster is a scale-out NAS solution consisting of FS8600 NAS appliances, the Fluid File System (FluidFS), and Storage Center. FluidFS, a
scale-out le system, provides high performance, highly scalable, and ecient le storage for Windows, UNIX, and Linux clients. Combined
with Storage Center, FluidFS provides a unied block and le storage solution.
Servers
Storage Manager allows you to manage the storage that is allocated servers and provides Storage Center integration with Windows and
VMware servers.
There are two ways to manage servers in Storage Manager:
• Add the servers to a Storage Center
• Register Windows and VMware servers with the Storage Manager Data Collector.
Related link
Storage Center Server Administration
SMI-S
Storage Manager supports the Storage Management Initiative Specication (SMI‑S), a standard interface specication developed by the
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). SMI-S allows Storage Manager to interoperate with storage management software and
hardware from other vendors.
NOTE
: The Storage Manager Data Collector must be installed in a Microsoft Windows environment. SMI-S is not supported on a
Virtual Appliance.
Related link
SMI-S
Storage Manager Overview
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