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- HP XP Performance Advisor Software
- HP XP Tiered Storage Manager Software
- HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software
- HP XP P9000 for Compatible High Perf FICON (R) Connectivity Software
- HP XP Data Shredder Software
- HP XP Thin Provisioning Software
- HP XP P9000 External Storage Software
- HP XP P9000 Performance Accelerator Software
- HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software
- HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software
- HP XP Disk/Cache Partition Software
- HP XP Provisioning Manager Software
- HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software
- HP XP P9000 Thin Provisioning Software
- HP XP P9000 Smart Tiers Software
- HP XP P9000 for Compatible PAV Software
- HP XP P9000 DKA Encryption Software
- HP XP P9000 Smart Manager for Mainframe Software
- HP XP Data Exchange Software
- HP XP P9000 Data Exchange Software
- HP XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software
- HP XP P9000 Auto LUN Software
- HP XP P9000 Array Manager Software
- HP XP P9000 Resource Partition Software
- HP XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager Software
HP XP Performance Advisor Software
HP XP Performance Advisor Software identifies performance bottlenecks before they impact your business. It collects and displays performance data for HP XP Disk Arrays.
It helps mitigate risk by providing performance alarm notification through email, SNMP, or user-defined scripts and helps avoid impending outages due to unavailable or misallocated storage resources. Its report generation and scheduling capability improves IT processes and maintains array performance by immediately identifying storage bottlenecks.
XP Performance Advisor reduces complexity and accelerates resolution of problems by collecting information from multiple arrays across multiple sites, and allows you to drill down to the problem area. Its ability to collect up to 320 GB of historical data enables detailed trend analysis and makes it easier to analyze performance data at regular intervals.
Its rich Command-Line User interface (CLUI) supports integration with third party software.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
Accelerate Business Growth by identifying performance bottlenecks before they impact your business
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface provides a system view of all HP XP Disk Array resources.
- Extensive reporting capabilities and a large 320GB database repository for detailed trend analysis.
- Supports XP24000, XP20000, XP12000, XP10000, XP1024 and XP128 disk arrays and the SVS200.
- Migrate data away from hot spots by using HP XP Performance Advisor with HP XP Tiered Storage Manager.
Mitigate Risks with automatic alarm notification through email, SNMP or user-defined scripts
- Monitor the performance of XP disk array resources with automatic event notification via email, SNMP, and user generated scripts. Quickly identify and resolve problems.
- Stay informed by running reports for periods as short as an hour and using charts to examine current performance.
Reduce Costs of performance problems by quickly drilling down to the problem area
- Quickly resolve problems with XPWatch, a command line interface utility provided with HP XP Performance Advisor. XPWatch is designed for focused trouble-shooting and can capture data as frequently as every 10 seconds.
- Reduce complexity by collecting and displaying performance data for HP XP Disk Arrays, multiple hosts and sites
- Monitor performance of XP Disk Arrays proactively with Real Time Charts.
HP XP Tiered Storage Manager Software
HP XP Tiered Storage Manager Software is a plug-in application for HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software. It allows you to non-disruptively migrate HP XP Disk Array data between tiers of storage while your applications remain on line.
You can match key user quality of service requirements, like cost, performance and data protection level, to the storage attributes of HP XP Disk Array controlled storage. HP XP Tiered Storage Manager Software works not only with internal HP XP Disk Array data, but also with External Storage, such as an MSA or EVA, connected to the HP XP Disk Array. HP XP Tiered Storage Manager Software saves you time and eliminates disruption when you need to migrate ageing data to another tier of storage.
With this product you can move the data while it remains online and ready for access. It improves data manageability and is perfect for applications which cannot be stopped or even paused.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- Migrate data without disrupting user applications
- Match quality of service requirements to data storage attributes - meets user needs for tiered storage of aging data over long periods of time
- Save time by grouping volumes that have similar storage requirements and performing operations on the group rather than dealing with each volume individually
- Convenient Graphical User Interface saves you time when setting up groups and tiers of storage
- Flexibility to meet changing user needs
HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software
HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software is a full featured device manager for the HP XP Disk Array products. In addition to device management, it also offers optional plug-in applications that provide replication monitoring, provisioning management, and tiered storage management for multiple HP XP Disk Arrays.
It also provides a platform from which to launch other disk array based application such as HP XP Auto LUN Software. HP XP Command View Advanced Edition monitors storage resources quickly and easily, automates storage management processes, and delivers more efficient utilization and control across distributed enterprise storage.
HP XP Command View Advanced Edition enables logical, physical and host management capabilities for HP XP Disk Arrays, provisioning and storage pooling for both internal and external storage, capacity analysis based on physical storage class, and offers multiple levels of security for storage administrators.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- Easy to use intuitive and consistent GUI showing detailed physical and logical views. Uses wizard driven dialogs for active management of HP XP Business Copy and HP XP Continuous Access pairs from a single pane of glass.
- Extensive reporting capabilities with reports in HTML and CSV formats. Allows provisioning and storage pooling for primary and external storage. Advanced Command Line Interface (CLI) for automated script generation and consolidated external storage pool management.
- SMI-S and XML interfaces, active provisioning and monitoring of HP XP Disk Arrays, HP XP Disk Array discovery and management from a higher level within the enterprise software stack.
- Supports the installed base of HP XP Disk Arrays.
- Storage is organized logically along business lines and departments. Remote Web Console (comes free with the XP arrays) gives access to core array management from the SVP and can be accessed directly from the HP XP Command View AE GUI. Remotely manage HP XP Disk Arrays from anywhere, anytime.
- Identifies storage issues with alerts before they become problematic. Automates repetitive tasks with scripting and wizards.
- Resiliency of management station operation. Eliminates the management station as a single point of failure.
- Increase the volume of storage manageable by storage administrators due to a single management station control over multiple XP arrays. Consistent and automated management across storage anywhere within the enterprise SAN.
- The CLI allows operations to be automated with scripts. It supports large, time consuming configuration changes through batch operations and provides advanced users the ability to make configuration changes quickly and access data quickly.
Remote Agility
- Storage is organized logically along business lines and departments. Remote Web Console (comes free with the XP arrays) gives access to core array management from the SVP and can be accessed directly from the HP StorageWorks XP Command View AE GUI. Remotely manage HP XP Disk Arrays from anywhere, anytime.
HP XP P9000 for Compatible High Perf FICON (R) Connectivity Software
High Performance FICON for system z or zHPF is an enhancement of the FICON channel architecture; which also means compatibility with certain standards such as Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling standard (FC-FS), Fibre Channel Switch Fabric and Switch Control Requirements (FC-SW), and Fibre Channel Single-Byte-4 (FC-SB-4) standards. Enhancements have been made to the z/Architecture and the FICON interface architecture to deliver improvements for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads.
zHPF is implemented exclusively in System z10. When High Performance FICON is exploited by the FICON channel, the z/OS operating system, and the control unit; the FICON channel overhead will be reduced.
This is achieved by simplification of the protocol, and by reducing the number of information units processed, resulting in more efficient use of the fiber link.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Improved Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Workloads Performance
- Reduced FICON channel overhead when High Performance FICON is exploited by the FICON channel, the z/OS operating system, and the control unit.
- Improves performance with simplification of the protocol, and by reducing the number of information units processed, resulting in more efficient use of the fiber link.
HP XP Data Shredder Software
HP XP Data Shredder Software erases selected data volumes with up to eight overwrite passes to reduce the chance of anyone ever re-creating the data. It is a valuable software application for critical data stored in enterprise environments where secure erasure is an absolute requirement.
It can reduce costs, help achieve compliance with corporate policies, and help to enhance data privacy and security. HP XP Data Shredder is an easy to use application that provides a variety of overwrite patterns either user selectable or random, shows progress bars, and has a confirmation panel which at completion of the operation displays the status of each of the overwrites specified.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP disk arrays
Features:
- Thoroughly erase old data by overwriting up to eight time.
- Choose your own overwrite patterns or use a random overwrite pattern.
- Verification that the overwrites have taken place
- The Graphical User Interface displays real time completion percentage.
- Percentage of completion is displayed within the GUI, including real time display of progress in the erasures.
- Stop the overwrite process if needed.
HP XP Thin Provisioning Software
HP XP Thin Provisioning Software reduces the cost, accelerates the return on investment and reduces the environmental impact of your HP XP24000 and XP20000 Disk Arrays. It allows you to supply disk storage capacity to your applications from a pool of virtualized storage.
By enabling you to allocate your anticipated future storage capacity needs from virtual disk storage, HP XP Thin Provisioning Software reduces the amount of physical disk capacity initially required. As utilization of disk space increases over time, you can purchase more disk capacity as it is needed and install it without affecting your applications.
HP XP Thin Provisioning Software reduces your initial storage acquisition cost, and reduces total cost of ownership, by allowing you to defer some storage purchases to a later date. Configure large logical volumes using a minimum of physical capacity, only paying for and installing storage when it is needed.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- Eliminate the need to over-provision storage for your applications. Reduce initial disk and capacity-based software acquisition costs. Defer a portion of your storage purchases to a later date and take advantage of decreasing disk costs.
- By reducing allocated but unused storage you can eliminate stranded storage and reduce the total amount of disk storage required over the life of the system.
- Allocate the maximum future capacity for your critical volumes at the time of installation, yet only provide the physical disk capacity that is required today. As the capacity needs of your applications grow, add more physical disk capacity without impacting your hosts or applications.
- Deploy more applications and servers on your storage infrastructure.
- Save time planning and sizing storage by using the thin provisioning pool and its easy-to-use graphical user interface.
- Reduce the environmental footprint of your storage by using HP XP Thin Provisioning to reduce disk purchases, thus reducing floor space, power consumption, and cooling requirements.
Deploy applications faster
- Save time planning and sizing storage by using the thin provisioning pool and its easy-to-use graphical user interface.
HP XP P9000 External Storage Software
In today’s business world, mergers, acquisitions, and technology changes have created IT environments where varieties of dissimilar servers and storage must co-exist. HP XP P9000 External Storage Software decreases the stress and reduces the cost of owning heterogeneous data storage by simplifying and centralizing common SAN management tasks through storage virtualization.
In addition it simplifies movement of data between dissimilar arrays. HP XP P9000 External Storage Software provides these benefits by giving you the ability to access, monitor, and manage data residing on a variety of different disk arrays as if all of the data were residing on an HP XP P9500 Storage. Through advanced virtualization technology, HP XP P9000 External Storage Software enables the hosting of HP XP P9500 Storage data on externally attached disk arrays.
Servers can see the capacity of the various arrays, but are insulated from the physical attributes.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Simplify your Storage Environment with Storage Virtualization
- Connect open systems and mainframes through a central location to multiple petabytes of data residing in dissimilar disk arrays, thus increasing the capacity that you can manage and easing the consolidation effort in environments that have a wide variety of storage and computing systems.
- After external volumes have been provisioned and presented to the HP XP P9500 Storage, External Storage allows you to manage the capacity of those volumes from the HP XP P9500 centralized controller and management software as if it belonged to XP P9500 volumes - simplifying management.
- Data contained within the HP XP P9000 External Storage virtualized storage pool can be transparently migrated to any device within the pool without SAN or server reconfiguration. This provides flexibility and improved efficiency while reducing impact on users.
Manage your Legacy, Current and Future Storage as One Single Resource
- When you use XP P9000 External Storage to connect your disk arrays to a XP P9500 Storage, the externally attached disk arrays appear to be part of the XP P9500 Storage. Therefore you can simplify your backup and restore environment by using a single backup agent for all of your diverse disk arrays.
- Use HP XP P9000 External Storage Software with confidence, knowing you can connect HP disk arrays like the MSA, EVA and XP P9000 Storage families as well as disk arrays from IBM, EMC, HDS and SUN.
HP XP P9000 Performance Accelerator Software
HP XP P9000 Performance Accelerator Software improves storage performance and helps improve return on investment. Performance Accelerator improves random I/O performance on XP P9000 arrays.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Achieve Higher I/O Performance
- Achieve higher I/O performance for random I/O
Better utilization of your storage
- Performance Accelerator's higher performance leads to better utilization of your XP P9500 storage
HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software
HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software is a plug-in application for HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software. It allows you to non-disruptively migrate HP XP P9500 Storage data between tiers of storage while your applications remain online.
You can match key user quality of service requirements, like cost, performance and data protection level, to the storage attributes of HP XP P9500 Storage controlled storage. HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software works not only with internal HP XP P9500 Storage data, but also with External Storage, such as an MSA or EVA, connected to the HP XP P9500 Storage. HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software saves you time and eliminates disruption when you need to migrate ageing data to another tier of storage.
With this product you can move the data while it remains online and ready for access. It improves data manageability and is perfect for applications which cannot be stopped or even paused.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Manage Changing Business Needs with Data in the Right Tiers of Storage
- Migrate data without disrupting user applications
- Match quality of service requirements to data storage attributes - meets user needs for tiered storage of aging data over long periods of time
- Save time by grouping volumes that have similar storage requirements and performing operations on the group rather than dealing with each volume individually
Use Case Based Graphical User Interface (GUI) Design
- Flexibility to meet changing user needs
- Convenient GUI saves you time when setting up groups and tiers of storage
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor identifies performance bottlenecks before they impact your business. It collects and displays performance data for HP XP P9500 and XP Disk Arrays.
It helps mitigate risk by providing performance alarm notification through email, SNMP, or user-defined scripts and helps avoid impending outages due to unavailable or misallocated storage resources. Its report generation and scheduling capability improves IT processes and maintains array performance by immediately identifying storage bottlenecks. Performance Advisor reduces complexity and accelerates resolution of problems by collecting information from multiple arrays across multiple sites, and allows you to drill down to the problem area.
Its ability to collect up to 320 GB of historical data enables detailed trend analysis and makes it easier to analyze performance data at regular intervals. Its rich Command-Line User interface (CLUI) supports integration with third party software.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage and HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
Accelerate Business Growth by Identifying Performance Bottlenecks Before they Impact your Business
- Easy-to-use Graphical User Interface provides a system view of all HP XP P9500 Storage resources.
- Extensive reporting capabilities and a large 320 GB database repository for detailed trend analysis.
- Supports P9500, XP24000, XP20000, XP12000, XP10000, XP1024, XP128, XP512, and XP48 disk arrays and the SVS200.
- Migrate data away from hot spots by using HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor with HP XP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager.
Mitigate Risks with Automatic Alarm Notification through Email, SNMP or User-defined Scripts
- Monitor the performance of HP XP P9500 Storage resources with automatic event notification via email, SNMP, and user generated scripts. Quickly identify and resolve problems.
- Stay informed by running reports for periods as short as an hour and using charts to examine current performance.
Reduce Costs of Performance Problems by Quickly Drilling Down to the Problem Area
- Quickly resolve problems with P9000Watch, a command line interface utility provided with HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. P9000Watch is designed for focused trouble-shooting and can capture data as frequently as every 10 seconds.
- Reduce complexity by collecting and displaying performance data for HP XP P9500 and XP Disk Arrays, multiple hosts and sites.
HP XP Disk/Cache Partition Software
As businesses strive to improve operational efficiency, consolidation of servers and storage becomes an attractive option. HP XP Disk/Cache Partition Software enables storage administrators in large consolidated storage environments to host multiple diverse user groups on one XP Disk Array while maintaining appropriate isolation between applications.
XP Disk/Cache Partition enables you to divide your XP Disk Array into multiple, independent partitions, with each partition having its own host ports, disk parity groups and cache. Applications that would normally compete for resources can share a single disk array without impacting each other.
Departments can share a single XP disk array confident that administrators cannot affect portions of the disk array that belong to someone else. XP Disk/Cache Partition Software allows companies to consolidate a variety of online storage needs onto one central XP disk array.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- Create partitions that are independently configured and managed. This partitioning model provides increased security for user data and HP XP Disk Array resources, and limits the scope of administrator errors to a single partition.
- Divide your HP XP Disk Array into multiple sub-arrays, or partitions, with each partition having its own host ports, disk array groups and cache. Assign partitions to critical applications and size them to maintain required performance.
- Prevent applications from affecting each other by assigning them to different partitions. Applications in one partition cannot affect the resources available to applications in other partitions.
- Reassign resources from one partition to another while the HP XP Disk Array is operating.
HP XP Provisioning Manager Software
HP XP Provisioning Manager Software is a plug-in application for HP XP Command View Advanced Edition Software. It enables you to quickly connect an HP XP Disk Array to a host server and make the storage ready for use.
It simplifies each step of the process: carving raw disk storage into manageable logical devices (LDEV's), allocating LDEV's to host servers, creating a device file, creating a file system, and mounting the resulting block to a file system. HP XP Provisioning Manager enables you to integrate and manage your HP XP Disk Array storage as a logical storage pool. By presenting the volumes associated with each resource group as a single logical volume, HP XP Provisioning Manager lets you manage these volumes regardless of where they actually reside.
This reduces the workload required to monitor and maintain the various volumes. HP XP Provisioning Manager provides transaction logs to help you quickly resolve file system and device management problems.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- Saves user time and money
- Provides a common user interface for managing file systems and device files across different hosts, saving resources and money
- Offers separation of administrative tasks-This allows the server administrator to provision by themselves as the sub storage pool will separate the allocation by storage administrator and provisioning by the server administrator
- The transaction logs enable you to correct errors and resume any operation from the point just prior to the failure, without having to redo the earlier process steps
HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software
HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software is a full-featured device manager for the HP XP P9500 and XP Disk Array products. In addition to device management, it offers optional plug-in applications that provide replication monitoring, provisioning management, and tiered storage management for multiple HP XP P9500 and XP Disk Arrays.
It also provides a platform from which to launch other disk array based application such as Auto LUN Software. Command View AE monitors storage resources quickly and easily, automates storage management processes, and delivers more efficient utilization and control across distributed enterprise storage. HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition enables logical, physical and host management capabilities for HP XP P9500 Storage and XP Disk Arrays, provisioning and storage pooling for both internal and external storage, capacity analysis based on physical storage class, and offers multiple levels of security for storage administrators.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage and HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
Easily and Efficiently Manage your Storage Arrays
- Easy-to-use intuitive and consistent GUI showing detailed physical and logical views. Uses wizard driven dialogs for active management of HP XP P9000 Business Copy and HP XP P9000 Continuous Access pairs from a single pane of glass.
- Extensive reporting capabilities with reports in HTML and CSV formats. Allows provisioning and storage pooling for primary and external storage. Advanced Command Line Interface (CLI) for automated script generation and consolidated external storage pool management.
- SMI-S and XML interfaces, active provisioning and monitoring of HP XP P9500 Storage and XP Disk Arrays; HP XP P9500 and XP Disk Array discovery and management from a higher level within the enterprise software stack.
Multi-array Management Tool of Choice
- Supports the installed base of HP XP Disk Arrays, along with the new HP XP P9500 Storage.
- Remotely manage HP XP P9500 Storage and XP Disk Arrays from anywhere, anytime.
- Storage is organized logically along business lines and departments. Remote Web Console (comes free with the XP P9500 Storage) gives access to core array management from the SVP and can be accessed directly from the HP XP P9000 Command View AE GUI.
- Identifies storage issues with alerts before they become problematic. Automates repetitive tasks with scripting and wizards.
Save Time by Automating your Regular Tasks
- The CLI allows operations to be automated with scripts. It supports large, time consuming configuration changes through batch operations and provides advanced users the ability to make configuration changes quickly and access data quickly.
- Resiliency of management station operation; Eliminates the management station as a single point of failure.
- Increases the volume of storage manageable by storage administrators due to a single management station control over multiple P9500 and XP arrays. Consistent and automated management across storage anywhere within the enterprise SAN.
HP XP P9000 Thin Provisioning Software
HP XP P9000 Thin Provisioning Software reduces the cost, accelerates the return on investment and reduces the environmental impact of your HP XP P9500 Storage. It allows you to supply disk storage capacity to your applications from a pool of virtualized storage.
By enabling you to allocate your anticipated future storage capacity needs from virtual disk storage, HP XP P9000 Thin Provisioning Software reduces the amount of physical disk capacity initially required. As utilization of disk space increases over time, you can purchase more disk capacity as it is needed and install it without affecting your applications.
HP XP P9000 Thin Provisioning Software reduces your initial storage acquisition cost, and reduces total cost of ownership, by allowing you to defer some storage purchases to a later date. Configure large logical volumes using a minimum of physical capacity, only paying for and installing storage when it is needed.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Virtualize your Storage to Reduce Costs and Gain Efficiency
- Eliminate the need to over-provision storage for your applications.
- Reduce initial disk and capacity-based software acquisition costs.
- Defer a portion of your storage purchases to a later date and take advantage of decreasing disk costs.
- Allocate the maximum future capacity for your critical volumes at the time of installation, yet only provide the physical disk capacity that is required today. As the capacity needs of your applications grow, add more physical disk capacity without impacting your hosts or applications.
- By reducing allocated but unused storage you can eliminate stranded storage and reduce the total amount of disk storage required over the life of the system.
Centrally Manage Storage Requirements of your Data Center
- Reduce the environmental footprint of your storage by using HP XP P9000 Thin Provisioning to reduce disk purchases, thus reducing floor space, power consumption, and cooling requirements.
- Deploy more applications and servers on your storage infrastructure.
- Save time planning and sizing storage by using the thin provisioning pool and its easy-to-use graphical user interface.
HP XP P9000 Smart Tiers Software
HP XP P9000 Smart Tiers Software improves storage performance and controls costs by transparently migrating data to appropriate tiers of storage within the HP XP P9500 Storage. Smart Tiers manages data in thin provisioning pools.
It monitors performance at the page level and can migrate the data online to a different tier, automatically or manually, based on policies. Smart Tiers supports up to three tiers per pool. XP P9000 Smart Tiers helps utilize different types of storage media (SSD, 15K SAS, 7.2K SAS) optimally.
With page level movements across tiers, it enables the most effective utilization of expensive tiers such as SSD by helping ensure that only the most frequently accessed data is stored there.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Achieve Desired Application Performance with Lower Costs
- Achieve lower response time for heavily accessed data and significant improve performance of I/O intensive applications.
- Enhance the performance of your virtualized (thin provisioned) storage and achieve superior performance at lower costs.
Better Utilization of Storage Media Resources
- Utilize different types of storage media (SSD, 15K SAS, 7.2K SAS) optimally.
- Page movements across tiers enables the most effective utilization of expensive tiers such as SSD.
- Save money with fewer rotating disks through fewer cabinets, less floor space, less power and cooling.
Automatic or Manual Tier Relocation of Thin Provisioning Pages
- Retain good performance even in peak load conditions with dynamic rule-based tier relocation.
- Relocate data from a slow tier to a fast tier at a page level instead of at a LUN level resulting in finer control of data movement and better performance.
HP XP P9000 for Compatible PAV Software
HP XP P9000 for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes and HP XP P9000 for Compatible Hyper PAV Software enable high performance concurrent access of mainframe volumes by permitting a mainframe host system to issue multiple I/O requests in parallel to individual logical devices within the HP XP P9500 Storage. Without PAV, mainframe systems can initiate only one I/O request per device at a time, and must wait for the I/O to complete before starting another I/O request to the same device.
By utilizing alias addresses that all point to the same device as the base address, PAV enables the host system to start several I/O requests simultaneously to the same device, thus greatly improving performance. The XP P9500 Storage supports static PAV, dynamic PAV, and Hyper PAV. With static PAV, the number of aliases assigned to each base device does not change.
With dynamic PAV, high workload base devices can borrow idle PAV aliases from other base devices, increasing their I/O capability.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Improved Data Access Performance
- By permitting multiple paths to the same logical device, HP XP P9000 for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes (PAV) Software greatly enhances the performance of data accesses to the HP XP P9500 Storage by mainframe hosts.
- Compatible Hyper PAV enhances the efficiency of PAV by selecting the alias IDs from a pool and binding them to base IDs only for the duration of the I/O operation. Since the pool allows fewer aliases than are required for conventional PAV, more addresses are available for use as base devices.
HP XP P9000 DKA Encryption Software
HP XP P9000 DKA Encryption Software enables the encryption capability for all the data that is stored on the internal drives of the HP XP P9500 Storage. The Enhanced DKA encrypts the data on disk drives so that data cannot be read off a disk drive that is removed from the HP XP P9500 Storage.
Only data on the disk drives is encrypted (data in cache is not encrypted).
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Enterprise Data Encryption
- The Enhanced DKA encrypts the data on disk drives so that data cannot be read off a disk drive that is removed from the HP XP P9500 Storage.
HP XP P9000 Smart Manager for Mainframe Software
Do you need help to manage your mainframe volumes and optimizing your storage resources? HP XP P9000 Smart Manager for Mainframe Software provides centralized management of Smart Tiers volumes in a mainframe environment. It works together with Smart Tiers to help mainframe users conveniently and transparently manage the location of volumes by tier.
It allows mainframe storage administrators to manage the location of volumes in a Smart Tiers pool such that SLA requirements can be satisfied. With Smart Manager for Mainframe your storage resources can be further optimized and efficiently utilized.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Optimize Storage Efficiency by Conveniently Managing Smart Tiers volumes on Mainframe
- Works together with Smart Tiers to help mainframe users conveniently and easily manage the location of volumes by tier.
- Recognizes z/OS DASD based on VOLSER, Storage Group and z/OS device numbers.
- Optimize your storage efficiency by conveniently managing Smart Tiers volumes on mainframe with the HP XP P9000 Smart Manager for Mainframe Software and the HP XP P9500 Storage.
Transparent Migration - Non-disruptive to Users
- No need to disrupt or shutdown applications.
HP XP Data Exchange Software
Store and manage mainframe and open systems data on a single HP XP Disk Array. HP XP Data Exchange Software allows seamless data exchange between mainframe and open systems hosts.
It provides management of data format and code conversions, and allows information sharing across computing platforms. It supports HP-UX, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and mainframe operating systems.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- Efficiently use your storage resources by storing mainframe and open systems data on the same HP XP Disk Array. HP XP Data Exchange Software automatically performs data format and code conversions to enable you to share information across computing platforms.
HP XP P9000 Data Exchange Software
Store and manage mainframe and open systems data on a single HP XP P9500 Storage. HP XP P9000 Data Exchange Software allows seamless data exchange between mainframe and open systems hosts.
It provides management of data format and code conversions, and allows information sharing across computing platforms. It supports HP-UX, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and mainframe operating systems.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Store Open Systems and Mainframe Data on the same HP XP P9500 Storage
- Efficiently use your storage resources by storing mainframe and open systems data on the same HP XP P9500 Storage. HP XP P9000 Data Exchange Software automatically performs data format and code conversions to enable you to share information across computing platforms.
HP XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software
HP XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software (PAV) and HP XP for Compatible Hyper PAV Software enable high performance concurrent access of mainframe volumes by permitting a mainframe host system to issue multiple I/O requests in parallel to individual logical devices within the HP XP Disk Array. Without PAV, mainframe systems can initiate only one I/O request per device at a time, and must wait for the I/O to complete before starting another I/O request to the same device.
By utilizing alias addresses that all point to the same device as the base address, PAV enables the host system to start several I/O requests simultaneously to the same device, thus greatly improving performance. The XP Disk Array supports static PAV, dynamic PAV, and Hyper PAV. With static PAV, the number of aliases assigned to each base device does not change.
With dynamic PAV, high workload base devices can borrow idle PAV aliases from other base devices, increasing their I/O capability.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP Disk Arrays
Features:
- By permitting multiple paths to the same logical device, HP XP for Compatible Parallel Access Volumes Software greatly enhances the performance of data accesses to the HP XP Disk Array by mainframe hosts.
- XP for Compatible Hyper PAV enhances the efficiency of PAV by selecting the alias IDs from a pool and binding them to base IDs only for the duration of the I/O operation. Since the pool allows fewer aliases than are required for conventional PAV, more addresses are available for use as base devices.
HP XP P9000 Auto LUN Software
HP XP P9000 Auto LUN Software provides automatic monitoring and load balancing for your HP XP P9500 Storage. It makes the most efficient use of your disk arrays by moving high-priority tasks to underutilized volumes, replicating volumes for backup and recovery, and viewing the health of your arrays.
You set performance goals and limits, and XP P9000 Auto LUN does the rest. It proposes a migration plan and estimates how much your storage performance will improve when it's done.
XP P9000 Auto LUN lets you evaluate disk array usage and determine whether resources are overloaded or out of balance. Use its easy-to-follow menus to define when data is collected and arrays are monitored.
Use up to 90 days of stored historical data to spot trends and create up-to-the-minute reports. You can export data to a spreadsheet for further analysis.
If resources are overloaded, XP P9000 Auto LUN Software will create a plan to move volumes, then stands by for your approval to make changes.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Improve Performance with Rebalanced Resource Utilization
- Obtain usage statistics for disk drives, logical volumes, processors, and other resources in your HP XP P9500 Storage so that you can keep your application working at peak efficiency.
- HP XP P9000 Auto LUN Software allows you to migrate data from overloaded resources to underutilized resources, while your application continues to access the data. Performance is improved without disruption.
HP XP P9000 Array Manager Software
HP XP P9000 Array Manager Software improves efficiency and maintains quality of service by allowing you to manage data volumes and allocate HP XP P9500 Storage resources so that your applications receive the proper level of support. Create LUNs, create expanded LUNs, and create small custom size volumes, and establish host access to them.
Efficiently control replication volumes with a host-based command line interface. Improve performance by reserving areas of cache to store frequently accessed data.
Isolate applications by subdividing the XP P9500 Storage into smaller segments, each consisting of dedicated cache, disk and ports. HP XP P9000 Array Manager Software protects your data by controlling access, preventing unauthorized alteration, and securely deleting data when it is no longer required. Configure security to prevent unauthorized servers from accessing the data.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Effectively Manage your HP XP P9500 Storage resources
- Make most effective use of your HP XP P9500 Storage by using HP XP P9000 Array Manager Software to configure and manage data volumes. Create LUNs, create expanded LUNs, create small custom size volumes, configure ports, and add or delete host I/O paths.
- Efficiently manage HP XP P9000 Continuous Access and HP XP P9000 Business Copy volumes with a host-based command line interface. Additionally, you can use the command line interface to configure and manage read-only and archive volumes.
- Improve file access times and accelerate data transfers by reserving areas of cache to store frequently accessed information. Assigning data to on-board cache improves performance because cache-resident data is available at host data transfer speeds for both read and write operations.
Configure your HP XP P9500 Storage per your business demands
- Rest easy knowing that the critical applications have the resources required to deliver the expected performance.
- Minimize risk of unauthorized access to your online data using HP XP P9000 Array Manager Software to configure, manage and secure all host accesses to the HP XP P9500 Storage.
- Protect critical data for archiving or data retention purposes. Create read-only volumes, prevent data replication, control read and write access, and protect data sets from query/IO scan/file system inquiry operations.
Save Time by Automating Routine Tasks
- Save time and reduce errors by automating array configuration and management tasks using the Command Line Interface (CLI) and scripts. Interface with SRM software platforms using the SMI-S provider.
- Protect your information at the end of its lifecycle by securely deleting it. Based on DoD5220.22-M, the standard defined by the U.S. Department of Defense, XP P9000 Array Manager Software allows you to completely delete data on specified volume by repeatedly overwriting the volume with dummy data.
HP XP P9000 Resource Partition Software
HP XP P9000 Resource Partition Software allows role based access control of XP P9500 resources. It allows storage administrators to partition XP P9500 Storage resources, at physical and logical level (Ports, Parity Groups, LDEV, Host Groups, External Volume) and assigning these resources to sub-administrators while retaining overall control. HP XP P9000 Resource Partition Software is ideal for a multi-tenant environment set up where dedicated sub-administrators need to manage the IT infrastructure needs of their respective business units.
At the same time, it allows the datacenter administrator retain complete control of XP P9500 Storage resources. Datacenter administrators can decide to partition XP P9500 Storage resources either at a logical level to improve storage utilization efficiency or at a physical level to improve quality of service and avoid data and access breaches across multiple tenants.
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Storage
Features:
Efficiently manage a large and complex datacenter running on XP P9500 Storage
- Assign role based access controls to sub-administrators to modularize IT infrastructure management, even with a central IT infrastructure resource pool.
- Useful for cloud service providers and for organizations with consolidated IT infrastructure, providing a platform to multiple tenants to host storage and charging as per usage.
Partition your HP XP P9500 Storage per your business demands
- Maximize XP P9500 Storage resource utilization with shared resources such as Ports, Parity Groups and External Storage, and dedicated resources such as host groups and LDEVs, with logical partitioning of XP P9500 Storage.
- Create resource groups based on the needs of your customers or business units, helping to ensure that quality of service and data secrecy requirements are met with hardware based partitioning.
HP XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager Software
HP XP P9000 External Storage Access Manager ensures high availability of host applications used in XP P9500 storage and prevents loss of application availability through transparent array failover from primary to secondary XP P9500 storage
Supported Hardware Environment:
HP XP P9500 Disk Array
Features:
Extreme high availability for mission critical applications
- Ensure high availability for host applications on XP P9500 storage.
Protection against loss of application availability
- Provides protection against loss of application availability when I/O failures occur in primary storage.
- Automatically switches host application from primary to secondary storage.