Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Symmetrix Mangement tools


EMC Control Center (ECC) is what we know as the mother of all Storage Management software. While you can use Navisphere to manage CLARiiON storage, you can also have ECC connnect directly to CLARiiON storage and perform simple storage provision activites, among other functionalities. It is very different from Navisphere and has it's own quirks and other functionality. You can have it manage other storage lik Symmetrix, Celerra, HDS, NetApps etc - although except for Symmetrix you are limited to rather basic storage provision / management features compared to using natively available management tools. However what ECC excels in is apart from having a single user interface to manage them all - Storage, SAN Switches, Backups, is the Notifications and Alerts features.

EMC Solutions Enabler is software that provides a host with SYMAPI (Symmetrix Application Programming Interface), It provides a specialized library of UNIX-formatted commands, and supports command line entries and scripts to perform configuration, control, and management operations on devices and data objects in EMC storage environments. Solutions Enabler software supports both open systems and mainframe operating systems.
Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) is a browser-based user interface designed for configuring and managing Symmetrix arrays. It was developed to concurrently support all the features of Enginuity Version 5671 and later.

EMC Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA) is a browser-based tool used to perform historical trending and analysis of Symmetrix array performance data. SPA was developed to work with the Symmetrix Management Console (SMC).

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