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HP New Management console for 3PAR

HP has introduced a new management console for it gigantic Storage solution 3PAR

The new Management console is named SSMC (StoreServ Management Console) which is supported across all HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage platforms, HP 3PAR Operating System Software utilizes advanced internal virtualization capabilities, features, and tools to increase storage management efficiency, capacity utilization, and performance in enterprise and cloud data centers. The OS simplifies storage management by handling provisioning and change management autonomically—intelligently, at a subsystem level, and without administrator intervention.

you can get a quick view in the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puUKRHbfPnY&feature=youtu.be

Additional product information                                                                                                                                     Product #: HP3PARIMC                                                                                                                                          Version:         4.6.2                                                                                                                                                                  Software specification:  3PAR Management Console 4.6.2 (QR482-10109.iso)

Autonomic Provisioning Features Eliminate Traditional Storage Planning

• Provisioning is managed intelligently and autonomically while traditional storage planning and change management are reduced.

• HP 3PAR Autonomic Groups is a feature designed to simplify storage provisioning for clustered and virtual server environments.

• The HP 3PAR Scheduler feature enhances management automation, reduces administration time, and decreases the chance of administrative error by giving users full control over automated virtual copy snapshot creation and deletion.

• The new 3PAR SSMC includes native search capabilities. When you begin a search, it defaults to searching in the area you’re currently managing in the console.

• Relationships between storage objects are important and the SSMC has a great maps view that highlight relationships between defined hosts and 3PAR systems and the virtual volumes and exports assigned to hosts.  The map views are powerful to quickly traverse objects in the 3PAR universe with the help of search.

Simple, Powerful Administration Tools Deliver Industry-Leading Ease Of Use

• The unified HP 3PAR Management Console simplifies storage management by placing everything you need to administer and optimize your entire HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage deployment in a single window, including remote replication to disaster recovery sites.

• The scriptable HP 3PAR Command Line Interface (CLI) simplifies storage management by giving you powerful customization capabilities that are simple to configure and which reduce the need for extra management tools and costly consulting services.

• SNMP and the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) enable open, standards-based management.

• Access Guard is an HP 3PAR Operating System Software feature that delivers user-configurable volume security at logical and physical levels that enables you to secure hosts and ports to specific virtual volumes.

• Native support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) within the HP 3PAR Operating System Software delivers centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing IT resources.

All manulas are supported on the following link http://www.hp.com/support/manuals

for further knowledge, Kindly visit the following links

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console 2.0 Release Notes

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console 2.0 User Guide

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console 2.0 Administrator Guide