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Access Logix Enables multiple heterogeneous hosts to connect to the CLARiiON Family systems for data consolidation at the departmental level.
Automated Resource Manager Manage your host storage resources and automate storage provisioning—from one console.
Common Array Manager Simplify the time-consuming and expensive task of managing today’s complex and expanding multi-vendor information infrastructure environments.
Control Center Family Storage management software that simplifies and automates multi-vendor storage device, storage network, and storage resource management.
CopyPoint Allows AS/400 systems to provide virtually uninterrupted 24/7 production-level support for your enterprise, while enabling backup protection.
Database Tuner Manage, monitor, and tune your database for optimal performance. Identifies performance problems and models solutions.
EMC Snap Creates space-saving, logical point-in-time images of production volumes—to reduce replication costs and recovery point objectives.
InfoMover Transfers files bi-directionally between any combination of mainframe, UNIX, or Windows systems using Symmetrix systems and existing I/O channel connections.
MirrorView Provides highly available data storage across a campus environment by maintaining synchronous data mirroring between CLARiiON arrays. Supports both IP and Fibre Channel.
Navisphere Discover, monitor, provision, and report on EMC CLARiiON storage systems from your Web browser.
OnCourse Enables secure, reliable, automated file distribution between Celerra and other systems across IP networks.
PowerPath Combines multiple path I/O capabilities, automatic load balancing, path failover, and logical volume management functions into one integrated package. For use on open server platforms connected to Symmetrix and CLARiiON networked storage.
Replication Manager Automate the deployment and management of information replication across the enterprise
SAN Architect Online subscription software for automated planning, validating, and design of storage area networks.
SAN Copy Supports data movement between CLARiiON systems and CLARiiON and Symmetrix systems over a high-speed SAN infrastructure or WAN.
SAN Manager Provides a central point of access and control for multi-vendor servers, storage networks, and storage arrays. It discovers all the SAN elements, visually maps your storage network, and enables you to manage access to the storage.
SnapView Captures a point-in-time snapshot image of a file system and retains the image independently of subsequent changes to the files.
SRDF Duplicates production site data on one or more physically separate target Symmetrix systems regardless of location.
SRDF Data Mobility Replicate or move data from one Symmetrix storage system to another without any impact on server or application cycles.
StorageScope Report on your storage infrastructure to capacity plan, conduct charge-backs, and efficiently manage storage assets.
Symmetrix Manager Discovers, monitors, and configures your Symmetrix platforms from a single console.
Symmetrix Optimizer Automates performance tuning of your Symmetrix system.
TimeFinder Creates, in background mode, independently addressable local mirror images of active Symmetrix production volumes for running simultaneous tasks in parallel.
Workload Analyzer Collects, graphs, analyzes, and archives Symmetrix, CLARiiON, SAN, and host performance data to help you monitor and manage performance trends in your information infrastructure.
 

Access Logix
EMC Access Logix software enables multiple heterogeneous hosts to connect to CLARiiON systems. Use Access Logix to extend the value of your EMC networked storage infrastructure outside the data center for added efficiency and productivity.

  • Enable multiple-host connectivity and storage consolidation for CLARiiON systems throughout your distributed environment.
  • Realize increased efficiency by simplifying tasks and providing better access to needed information.
  • Rapidly deploy new hosts and reassign capacity without scheduled maintenance or downtime.

Automated Resource Manager
Automated Resource Manager is a powerful storage resource management tool optimized for EMC storage and distributed open systems environments. You can set business-focused storage policies for handling the discovery, reporting, and provisioning needs of the largest enterprises—and have those policies automatically adhered to.

  • Quickly and easily create and specify storage provisioning policies and allocation pools based on business requirements.
  • Meet time-to-provision, availability, and performance service levels.
  • Simplify storage allocation by rapidly identifying free storage available from your hosts, HBAs, ports, arrays, or devices.
  • Streamline problem resolution by automating the response to alerts based on user-defined business rules.
  • Reduce storage administration costs by consolidating management of multi-vendor hosts databases, backup systems, and mainframe tape devices.

Common Array Manager
Common Array Manager consolidates management of direct-attached, SAN-attached, and NAS storage arrays and enables drill-down views into the subcomponents of supported arrays. You'll be able to understand how the storage is configured, view health, performance, and utilization information, and set threshold-based alerts. Common Array Manager can be used with Automated Resource Manager, StorageScope, Database Tuner, and SAN Manager for a complete end-to-end solution for storage resource, network, and device management.

  • Easily view the relationship between databases, file systems, hosts, and arrays.
  • Streamline problem resolution by setting threshold alerts based on user-defined business rules.
  • Reduce storage administration costs by consolidating management of multi-vendor storage infrastructures.

Control Center Family
EMC ControlCenter simplifies and automates management of your multi-vendor networked storage environment. With ControlCenter, you can "see" the elements of your IT infrastructure—both hardware and software. "Know" how your infrastructure is performing. And "do" what's necessary to ensure that service levels are met—for better performance, improved productivity, and reduced costs.

ControlCenter is the only storage management software that provides host, SAN, and array management for both EMC and non-EMC storage. And, unlike competing products, ControlCenter applications share an infrastructure, so each ControlCenter application builds on the previous one. So you can grow and expand—without losing the value of your investment.

  • Improve performance and utilization of your networked storage environment.
  • Automate the provisioning process, end-to-end.
  • Increase productivity by integrating host, SAN, and array management tasks from one console.
  • Reduce costs by consolidating the management of multi-vendor storage.

Copy Point
With EMC CopyPoint software, your AS/400 systems can provide virtually uninterrupted 24x7 production-level support for your enterprise while enabling backup protection and other operational background functions with minimal disruption.

  • Works with EMC TimeFinder software to allow operational tasks such as backups and batch processing runs to be off-loaded to a secondary AS/400
  • Works with SRDF to provide a disaster recovery solution

Database Tuner
An integral part of the EMC ControlCenter family, Database Tuner enables more efficient management of Oracle or IBM DB2 UDB databases. Database Tuner alerts you when a performance problem arises, helps determine the cause, and recommends how to fix it—without affecting your production environment.

  • Maximize ROI for your database and storage by optimizing performance.
  • Run more efficiently by creating a shared view for developers, database, and storage administrators.
  • Isolate performance issues and identify and model potential solutions for quick problem resolution.
  • Monitor your system end-to-end without degrading database performance.
  • Link symptoms to causes by linking application files to physical devices.

EMC Snap
EMC Snap for Symmetrix DMX networked storage creates space saving, pointer-based snapshots of your production volumes. EMC Snap enables more frequent copies of data for instant restore back to the source device, its BCV, or a separate device—reducing replication costs and recovery point objectives.

  • Increase application availability while reducing scheduled downtime
  • Minimize data exposure and recovery time via frequent snapshots, reducing recovery point objectives
  • Allow non-disruptive access to critical data for parallel processing
  • Reduce replication TCO while meeting service levels
  • Ideal for backup, reporting, testing, and data warehousing environments

InfoMover
EMC InfoMover™ is a unique, high-performance software solution that combines flexible information transfer and sharing capabilities, enabling open access to information within the data center. InfoMover transfers files bi-directionally between any combination of mainframe, UNIX, or Windows NT systems using the Symmetrix® Enterprise Storage system and existing I/O channel connections instead of the network. InfoMover also enables UNIX systems to read MVS files directly, eliminating the need to move data and saving valuable file transfer time.

  • Accelerate information delivery within the data center
  • Shorten data warehouse refresh times
  • Relieve batch scheduling constraints
  • Speed implementation with InfoMover's new, easy to use GUI

MirrorView
MirrorView provides highly available data storage across a campus environment by maintaining synchronous data mirroring—uni-directionally or bi-directionally—between CLARiiON arrays. And because MirrorView is array based, applications and hosts are free to service users.

  • Maintain an exact byte-for-byte copy of your production data in a secure, remote location.
  • Deploy remote mirroring solutions over dark fiber and/or IP communication links.
  • Perform concurrent mirroring from one source logical unit to two different target systems.
  • Deploy multiple source CLARiiON systems mirroring to one business continuity target system.
  • Perform cross-generational mirroring between CLARiiON FC4700 and CX series systems.

Navisphere
With the EMC Navisphere Management Suite you can manage, discover, monitor, and configure your EMC storage systems from a Web browser—for complete storage management anytime, anywhere. Use with other EMC ControlCenter applications for storage resource, network, and device management across your multi-vendor storage environment.

  • Provision, monitor, and configure CLARiiON networked storage systems from a single console with Navisphere Manager.
  • Manage a single CLARiiON CX200 with Navisphere Manager Base.
  • With Navisphere Analyzer, collect performance information in graphical form to identify performance patterns and trends before problems occur.apabilities include trend analysis, reporting, and system capacity management.
  • Script/automate common storage management tasks with the Navisphere Agent/CLI as your host-to-array communication bridge.
  • Access and manage all CLARiiON platform applications—including Access Logix, MirrorView, SnapView, and SAN Copy—via the Navisphere suite.

On Course
EMC OnCourse is a powerful, easy-to-use application that enables secure, reliable, automated distribution of files between Celerra and/or other systems across IP networks. With OnCourse, your data can be replicated between two or more systems, aggregated from many systems to a central node, or distributed to many nodes from a central system.

  • Collect data back to a central source for improved business responsiveness
  • Simplify IT administration with centralized management and fewer remote backup systems
  • Improve accuracy and timeliness of data transfers to distributed systems
  • Enhance information reliability and service level agreements with partners and customers
  • Manage software upgrades to thousands of systems

PowerPath
EMC PowerPath combines multiple path I/O capabilities, automatic load balancing, path failover, and logical volume management functions into one integrated package—for use on open server platforms connected to Symmetrix, CLARiiON, and other networked storage systems.

  • Enhance application availability and optimize performance using multiple paths.
  • Ensure increased efficiencies and throughput with automatic load balancing.
  • Deliver higher application service levels with seamless data migration via integrated volume management functionality.
  • Relieve system administration workload via dynamic configuration options.
  • Keep applications running and information flowing in the event of failure.
  • Expand application storage without application interruption.
  • Manage more storage with fewer resources via automated path management, provisioning, and volume management.

Replication Manager
Replication Manager manages the entire information replication process—from discovery and configuration to operation of multiple disk replicas. The industry's only application that manages multi-vendor, disk-based replications, Replication Manager simplifies and accelerates the creation and coordination of local disk-based replicas.

  • Eliminate complex scripting involved with integrating replication technology and existing application environments.
  • Leverage your information storage infrastructure for easy creation, separation, and reassignment of files and databases elsewhere in your infrastructure.
  • Implement policy-based activities by easily moving information between different media types, such as large disks, small disks, and tape.
  • Ensure data availability by restoring source data to production servers or alternate hosts.
  • Streamline and accelerate repair and recovery in the event of corrupt or lost data.

SAN Architect
You can reduce costly errors and eliminate manual, repetitive tasks with SAN Architect by instantly validating array, switch, and topology configurations—and identifing interoperability issues based on your specific environment. Part of EMC's ControlCenter online information management capabilities, this subscription-based software graphically maps and validates proposed SAN configurations against EMC's internal knowledge bases of best practices, industry standards and interoperability guidelines. SAN Architect's easy-to-follow templates are designed for both novice and expert users, offering design and alternative recommendations so you avoid costly configuration errors, application downtime, and scalability constraints.

  • Rapidly implement or change SAN environments by eliminating compatibility and interoperability guesswork.
  • Plan multiple server, switch, or array roll-outs and consolidations.
  • Validate changes and proposed implementations without interrupting production systems.
  • Ensure service level delivery with clear, accurate information of infrastructure impact on business unit performance.
  • Access SAN Architect online from any place, any time, with assurance pre-loaded components are up-to-date and work together.

SAN Copy
EMC SAN Copy enables high-speed data mobility between multi-vendor storage systems without affecting server cycles or LAN bandwidth. With SAN Copy you can rapidly move data between CLARiiON and Symmetrix systems—and even between EMC and HPQ systems. So you get the flexibility to deploy a data mobility configuration that includes all of your data center, regional, and distributed systems—regardless of location.

  • Rapidly move and copy data—where and when you need it.
  • Move and copy large amounts of information over the SAN or WAN.
  • Eliminate impact on production activities during data copying and movement.
  • Quickly distribute the freshest data for application testing and development.
  • Distribute and collect content without affecting application server cycles or LAN bandwidth.
  • Perform storage management tasks such as resource balancing and RAID scheme changes.

SAN Manager
SAN Manager (formerly ESN Manager) is a comprehensive SAN management tool that masks the complexity of managing storage area networks. By leveraging the ControlCenter shared infrastructure, SAN Manager's seamless integration with other host and array management tasks makes the EMC ControlCenter family the most powerful storage management software available today.

  • Centralize and streamline operations across multi-vendor storage networks, (Brocade, McData, QLogic, EMC Connectrix) and storage arrays (HP StorageWorks, HDS, EMC CLARiiON, EMC Symmetrix) with a single SAN management tool.
  • Automate zoning and device masking for multi-vendor SANs in a single operation.
  • Manage more storage with the same or fewer resources.
  • Scale and expand to meet dynamic business needs.

SnapView
EMC SnapView software cost-effectively accelerates backup and recovery through economical, disk-based "instant restore" of production data. SnapView creates point-in-time snapshots and full-copy business continuance volumes of production data for non-disruptive backup. Restore applications and data in seconds versus the hours often required for traditional tape-based methods. SnapView is available for CLARiiON CX600, CX400 and FC4700 networked storage systems.

  • Enhance application uptime through fast, easy restoration of data.
  • Accomplish restores or backups quickly, frequently, and non-disruptively.
  • Gain operational efficiencies by enabling multiple servers or users read/write access to copies of production data—without affecting production.
  • Accelerate application development by providing the most current data for testing.

SRDF
EMC's industry-leading SRDF protects information and provides comprehensive business continuity during both planned and unplanned outages. This online, host-independent, mirrored data solution duplicates your production site data on one or more physically separate target Symmetrix systems. Systems can be across the room, across the globe, or anywhere in between.

  • Recover data and relieve disruptive outages in minutes.
  • Realize 24x7 revenue generation and customer service capabilities for increased competitive advantage.
  • Perform scheduled backups, data warehouse loading, and application testing without disrupting operations.
  • Migrate data between sites quickly and non-disruptively, supporting data center consolidation and site workload reallocation.
  • Test disaster recovery plans without business interruptions or manually intensive recovery drills.

SRDF/Data Mobility
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Data Mobility enables you to easily move and copy data from one Symmetrix storage system to another without any impact on server or application cycles. Data movement can be performed locally, over campus distances, or across the globe—greatly increasing your ability to move and copy data to where you need it most.

  • Eliminate purchases of additional servers by offloading replication processes.
  • Replicate and distribute files daily without interruption due to insufficient server bandwidth.
  • Alleviate lengthy outages resulting from transporting physical media to another location.
  • Make identical data available at multiple locations for testing, maintenance, and data relocation.
  • Increase efficiency and accuracy of testing efforts.

StorageScope
StorageScope is the industry's only correlated storage utilization reporter. With StorageScope, you can customize utilization metrics to track and account for your storage assets any way you need to.

  • Identify underutilized or inefficient utilization of storage assets.
  • Facilitate billing or charge-back operations by application or line of business.
  • Capacity plan across your entire infrastructure to avoid "out of space" errors.
  • Summarize multi-vendor storage infrastructure in application and business context.
  • Track historical metrics to predict growth and plan future procurements.

Symmetrix Manager
Symmetrix Manager—now in its fifth generation—discovers, monitors, and configures your Symmetrix platforms from a single console to give you maximum control over your Symmetrix environment. You'll be able to manage your Symmetrix, its physical disks, devices, front- and back-end directors, and ports. Symmetrix Manager is part of the EMC ControlCenter Management Package for Symmetrix.

  • Manage multiple Symmetrix systems from a single console.
  • Alleviate potential bottlenecks and realign resources in response to business needs.
  • Make configuration changes instantaneously to meet evolving business needs.
  • Lower the costs of managing your storage infrastructure.

Symmetrix Optimizer
Symmetrix Optimizer, an integral part of the EMC ControlCenter family, automates performance tuning of your Symmetrix system. You'll be able to set up disk-tuning and data-placement changes via an intuitive GUI—according to control parameters you choose.

  • Replace time-consuming, error-prone manual load balancing and data placement with an automated process.
  • Model performance changes before implementing them.
  • Optimize performance by application.
  • Monitor Symmetrix performance for early response to business environment changes.
  • Optimally place business information for easy access.
  • Free up IT staff for other critical activities.
  • Ensure constant uptime and data protection during transparent physical drive reconfigurations.

TimeFinder
EMC TimeFinder for your Symmetrix networked storage environment allows you to create, in background mode, independently addressable mirror images of active production volumes; Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs)—for mainframe, UNIX, and Windows NT information storage. With TimeFinder, your backup operations are performed against these BCVs, leaving the production copy fully available for regular business needs. And only TimeFinder incorporates advanced consistency technology for restartability of multiple volume datasets without application downtime.

  • Accomplish backups quickly, frequently, and without disruption.
  • Improve batch processing time by eliminating job step copies.
  • Load or update data warehouses as needed.
  • Perform application testing with real production data while business continues.
  • Maximize hours of online processing to increase revenue.

Workload Analyzer
With Workload Analyzer, you can standardize on one performance application to manage your entire networked environment: storage, network, databases, switches, and hosts. This easy-to-use tool collects, graphs, analyzes, and archives performance data so you can more effectively monitor and manage performance trends in your information infrastructure. Workload Analyzer is part of the EMC ControlCenter Management Package for Symmetrix.

  • Understand and resolve performance issues for specific applications.
  • Focus I/O tuning, configuration, and upgrades where they'll be most beneficial.
  • Perform trend analysis for capacity planning.
  • Manage service level agreements through automated Web reports.