IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Release Guide

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2 is a feature-rich storage management software suite. The integrated suite provides detailed monitoring, reporting, and management within a single console.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for storage administrators and users who are installing and using the features and functions in IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2. The information in the book can be used to plan for, install, and customize the components of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center in your storage infrastructure. This release contains several important functional enhancements:

- New licensing for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select and for Tivoli Storage productivity Center for Disk Select to provide full Tivoli Storage Productivity Center functionality to Midrange.

- Support for IBM Storwize V7000. Also new is the capability for customers to generate and see Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Internal Disks report.

- New IBM Tivoli Tier reports that help clients make important decisions about storage tiering by utilizing estimated capability and actual performance data for IBM System Storage®
SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize V7000 storage tier reports.

- IBM XIV® Storage System support has been updated, adding discovery, provisioning, and performance management, as well as new replication support for three new XIV sessions:
Snapshot, Metro Mirror failover/failback, and Global Mirror Failover/Failback.

Step-by-step procedures are provided to help you with tasks such as migrating to Storage Resource agents, using Native APIs, using SAN configuration planning functions, and maintaining your IBM DB2 database repository.