Productivity Center for Fabric

Quick Start Services for TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric - 4 Days

  • This service offering helps you to quickly launch your project pre-production environment and gain skills to realize rapid time to value. We use best practices to help achieve your storage management objectives and move to the next phase of deployment

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Now that you have built your Storage Area Network (SAN), it is increasingly difficult to manage. Hosts, storage devices, file systems from different vendors, different operating systems and access methods – all creating a complexity.

You would like to successfully and speedily implement in your pilot environment to realize a more rapid time to value.

You need to monitor and track the performance of SAN attached SMI-S compliant storage devices.

You need to monitor, manage and control SAN fabric components.

You would like to minimize the amount of risk associated with your deployment project.

Upfront deployment planning is essential to ensure best possible success.

Expert consultant on-site to lend lessons learned and valuable expertise.

Benefit from the expertise offered by Tivoli Associates consultants.

Prepare staff to effectively deliver into production.

Learn skills and gain hands-on experience.

Help plan for future storage needs with lessons learned and experience for the next steps.

Create an IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric in a pre-production environment.

Produce a SAN topology map.

Configure SMI-S CIM Agent to manage a Brocade** or McData** fabric switch.

Configure pre-production environment switches with out-band Agents and in-band Agents in a pre-production environment.

Configure SAN Performance Monitoring and Reporting.

Gain experience and skills in installation, configuration and operation of product.

4 days in duration.
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