The IBM® System Storage® Productivity Center (SSPC) is an integrated hardware and software solution that provides a single point of entry for managing SAN Volume Controller clusters, IBM System Storage DS8000® systems, and other components of your data storage infrastructure.
SSPC simplifies
storage management in the following ways:
- Centralizing the management of storage network resources with IBM storage management software
- Providing greater synergy between storage management software and IBM storage devices
- Reducing the number of servers that are required to manage your software infrastructure
- Providing simple migration from basic device management to storage management applications that provide higher-level functions
SSPC includes
the following software components:
- SAN Volume Controller Console
- PuTTY (SSH client software)
- IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition, which can be used to access the IBM System Storage DS8000 Storage Manager and the SAN Volume Controller
- IBM DB2® Enterprise Server Edition
Figure 1 shows
an overview of how SSPC and
the components of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, IBM System Storage DS8000,
and SAN Volume Controller interrelate
with each other.
For more information on SSPC, see the IBM System Storage Productivity Center Introduction and Planning Guide.