NEW - Veritas™ Operations Manager, Veritas™ Operations Manager Enterprise Reporter, Veritas™ Operations Manager Storage Change Manager
Available from 4th October 2010
Symantec is announcing Veritas™ Operations Manager 5.2, Veritas™ Operations Manager Enterprise Reporter 5.2 and Veritas™ Operations Manager Storage Change Manager 5.2. The Operations Manager product family offers a comprehensive hardware agnostic storage service management approach. With the introduction of this solution, users now have end-to-end visibility of their storage resources in physical and virtual server and storage environments across multiple data centers and DR sites. This solution helps customers optimize their storage infrastructure and operations and align them to their business needs. By driving up storage utilization and gaining operational efficiency, customers can derive significant cost savings in terms of hardware as well as data center space, power and cooling.
Veritas Operations Manager Enterprise Reporter
Veritas Operations Manager Enterprise Reporter 5.2 provides a global view of storage assets mapped to your organization, business insight about inventory and utilization, on-demand customized reporting, and personalized dashboards. ER maps your storage infrastructure along the natural groupings of your business, allowing chargeback, capacity management, accountability, and aligning IT to business objectives.
Whats New:
Veritas™ Operations Manager
- Enhanced agentless storage resource management
o Capacity utilisation and chargeback reporting for servers without an agent - New light-weight unified agent
o In-depth end-to-end visibility and capacity analysis with low CPU/memory/disk footprint - Thin Provisioning support
o Thin Storage reporting on utilization, chargeback and visibility for HDS USP(V), EMC DMX/VMAX and IBM XIV arrays
Improved server virtualization support
o Agentless discovery of Solaris 10 Zones and ZFS
o Agentless discovery of VMware Guest OS capacity utilization via ESX server
o Support for NAS storage for VMware
o New chargeback reports for VMware - New storage reclamation reports for faster ROI
o Focused reports for storage “white-space” area for rapid storage assessments and reclamation - Enhanced Business view management
o New drag-n-drop interface for asset-to-business mapping in Enterprise Reporter - Improved role based access
o Access control at Active Directory group level for Enterprise Reporter - Improved platform support
o Arrays & Switches: IBM XIV, ZFS, EMC DLA, Cisco Device Node alias, Brocade MPR
o Server platforms: RHEL 5.2, Solaris x86, Solaris 10 Zones
o Database: DB2 on Linux, Kerberos support for DB2, Oracle 11g ASM, Oracle ASM on Linux/UDEV
o Enterprise Reporter support for Oracle 11g
Marketing Description:
Veritas™ Operations Manager is a storage resource management solution that provides centralized visibility and control across physical and virtual heterogeneous storage environments. It includes a capacity planning solution enabling organizations to reclaim wasted storage and reduce capital and operational costs. By providing dynamic mapping from the application to the physical spindle, Operations Manager enables data centers to optimize resources and operations. Operations Manager enables continuous health monitoring and change management of the entire storage infrastructure for optimized performance and data availability. These elements together ensure alignment of IT operations with the objectives of the business
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