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 congure volumes, snapshot

proles, and storage proles. You can also present congured storage to servers by dening server objects and mapping volumes to them.

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PS Group Management

Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your PS Groups. For each PS Group, you can congure volumes, snapshots, and

replications between a PS Group and Storage Center. You can also congure 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 ecient le storage for Windows, UNIX, and Linux clients. Combined

with Storage Center, FluidFS provides a unied 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.