HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility 5.1 release notes

Version: 5.1
Description
HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility (SAN Visibility) provides a quick and easy way to review the topology
and inventory in a complex Storage Area Network (SAN) environment.
Update recommendation Recommended
Supersedes HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility version 5.0
New features
HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility offers the following new features:
• Supports data collection from Microsoft windows hosts configured with Internet Protocol version
6 (IPv6) addresses.
• Provides support for 3PAR, P9500, P6500 and P6300 storage systems.
• Send Logs provides a way to quickly send the logs with a click of a button.
• Mail acknowledgement to sender’s email id informs the customer about the processed report sent
to the mail id mentioned in SV GUI.
• Check for SDG Fabric non-adherence run through captured SAN information and tries analyzing
it for any potential SDG non-adherence and generate recommendations in the processed report
based on the output of the non-adherence check.
• SAN components compatibility check analyzes compatibility for the SAN components available
in the report.
Existing features
• Provides an intuitive, simple, and easy to use graphical user interface (GUI).
• Collects SAN information, such as Fibre Channel (FC) switch details, Host Bus Adaptor (HBA)
details, and Storage Array Connectivity information, by logging in to the FC switches.
• Sends raw data collected by SAN Visibility to HP (sent automatically by the SAN Visibility software
or sent manually). A processed report is generated on receipt of the data file.
• Sends processed reports containing SAN topology diagram, device inventory, high level SAN
summary, HBA-Host mapping details, and recommendations in HTML or Microsoft Excel format.
• Allows data collection from the FICON enabled switches.
• Supports FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) switches.
• Provides report on FICON supported devices in your SAN using IOCP file.
• Supports data collection from NPIV configured switches.
• Supports data collection from switches configured with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses.
• Provides an option to filter the type of SAN components you want to view in your processed report.
• Provides an option to customize the SAN device labels that you want to view in the processed
report (topology diagram).
• Simplifies initial SAN implementation and helps reduce SAN infrastructure cost and complexity.
• Provides an option to schedule data collection on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
• Provides an option to compare SANs and generate compared reports.
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