By providing a single set of management tools for administrators, Command Suite establishes a common management framework for Hitachi virtualized storage and server environments. This framework enables IT organizations to build a Continuous Cloud Infrastructure, powered by Hitachi, for managing their growing storage needs and delivering on application service levels. Common Management Framework Hitachi Command Suite simplifies management, allowing you to take full control of your data infrastructure, optimizing avail- ability, capacity utilization and service levels. Command Suite consolidates management across all Hitachi storage systems to easily align storage resources to business application needs. At the same time, it centralizes administration for device configuration, performance optimization, data mobility and replication management. Hitachi Command Suite provides an integrated management framework that encompasses 5 strategic management pillars: ■■ Control: Unifies management across all Hitachi storage systems and data types, Reduced Administrative Costs A sustainable administrative foundation allows greater volumes of data to be managed effectively, enabling the rapid deployment of new business applications and technology advances. ■■ Manage more data and resources with a common set of tools, including virtualized heterogeneous storage assets. ■■ Use a consolidated element manager approach for all basic storage management tasks and shared logical group constructs to effectively scale for larger deployments. Hitachi Command Suite Hitachi Command Suite comprises the following software products: Hitachi Device Manager forms the base of Hitachi Command Suite. It is included with Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System and Hitachi Base Operating System to provide the common management and administration for multiple Hitachi storage systems, on which advanced management capabilities are built. Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Advanced offers robust SAN path management capabilities, including load balancing, path failover, and integrated path management, to improve an application’s access to its data. Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning provides virtual storage capacity to simplify the administration of adding new storage capacity while improving performance and capacity utilization. Hitachi Dynamic Tiering simplifies tiered storage management with page-based movement of data to the most appropriate storage media according to workload and usage patterns. It simplifies storage management, maximizes service levels, improves performance and minimizes storage costs.
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Red Hat Certifications
This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies:
| Target Product | Level |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x | Self-Certified |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x | Self-Certified |
