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Hitachi® Disk Arrays KM for PATROL

Hitachi Disk Arrays KM for PATROL monitors all your Hitachi storage assets within a centralized management console. All the information concerning disk arrays, storage pools, controllers, storage volumes, and ports are directly displayed in your BMC Performance Manager environment. By monitoring all your Hitachi storage devices within a centralized management console, you can respond quickly to performance problems, easily determine capacity requirements, and effectively plan for network expansions.

How it Works

Hitachi Disk Arrays KM for PATROL works in conjunction with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL. Hardware Sentry KM discovers and monitors all the hardware aspects of the Hitachi disk array: disks, RAIDs, controllers, temperature sensors, fans, power supplies, Ethernet cards, fiber ports, etc. Hitachi Disk Arrays KM for PATROL discovers and monitors all the software aspects of the array: overall capacity, spare disks, data traffic, oversubscription, etc.

Hitachi Disk Arrays KM for PATROL requires Hitachi Device Manager to be properly installed one of your monitored servers.

Supported Platforms

Hitachi Disk Arrays KM for PATROL supports the following Hitachi storage equipment:

  • Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family
  • Hitachi Universal Storage Platform (USP, USP-V/USP-VM)

Key Features

  • Disk arrays: size, consumed and subscribed capacity, I/Os throughput...
  • Storage pools: Thin provisioning metrics, size and type...
  • Controllers: Hit ratio, data traffic...
  • Storage Volumes: data traffic, hit ratio, time utilization, response time...
  • Ports: Data traffic statistics, bandwidth utilization, I/Os throughput...

Key Benefits

  • Collects storage performance and metrics to keep total control of your SAN environment
  • Identifies performance bottlenecks (arrays, volumes, storage pools, etc.)
  • Manages and helps rationalize disk space consumption
  • Detects oversubscription situations (thin provisioning)
  • Complete view of your heterogeneous SAN in a centralized environment

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Licensing

To monitor an Hitachi Disk Array, you need to acquire a license "Sentry Software Monitoring and Analytics for BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management – Storage Monitoring" from BMC Software. The "Storage Monitoring" license gives you the right to use both "Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL" and "Hitachi Disk Arrays KM for PATROL" to monitor one Hitachi Disk Array.