Software Solutions
All current Sun StorageTek 9900 software products are supported on the new StorageTek 9985V providing a
complete suite of storage management, data/information lifecycle management, and business continuity
solutions.
Complimenting the Sun StorageTek 9985V system is a set of specific software offerings providing storage
resource management, performance tuning, and business continuity solutions.
StorageTek 9900 Basic Operating System (BOS) Suite
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Includes Device Manager, Resource Manager Suite and Server Priority Manager
- Also includes Virtual Partition Manager with support for up to 4 partitions
This suite was created to deliver the storage return on investment, security, and quality of service to
applications that your organization requires. And the Basic Operating System Virtualization software enables
the ST9985V's embedded virtualization capabilities and allows customers to take advantage of storage
management and data mobility capabilities within a single system or across an entire heterogeneous storage
pool. Using Basic Operating System, one administrator can manage an entire storage infrastructure from a
single pane of glass or you can choose to designate multiple storage administrators who can optionally manage
only a particular set of storage resources that is made accessible to them.
StorageTek 9900 Resource Management Suite
The Sun StorageTek software and hardware solutions are managed through the powerful StorageTek 9900
HiCommand Storage Area Management Suite. This management tool substantially lowers total cost of
ownership by enabling storage hyper-consolidation and the intelligent remote management of critical
information. The business value of centralized, global storage management is to increase business agility
through heightened operational excellence and greatly reduced total cost of ownership.
StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Device Manager
The StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Device Manager software provides a single platform for centrally
managing, configuring, and monitoring Sun StorageTek 9900 series and any storage product that complies with
the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) standard set by the Storage Networking Industry
Association. By significantly boosting the volume of storage that each administrator can manage, the single
point-of-control design of Device Manager software can help raise storage management efficiency in these
environments as well as reduce costs.
Easy-to-use Device Manager software views storage resources logically, while maintaining independent
physical-management capabilities. By offering a continuously available view of actual storage usage and
configuration, Device Manager software allows administrators to precisely control all managed storage
systems. The result: Highly efficient use of administrative time and storage assets. When combined with
StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tuning Manager and StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Storage Services Manager
modules, Device Manager software helps automate entire storage environments.
StorageTek 9900 Virtual Partition Manager
The StorageTek 9985V Virtual Partition Manager enables the logical partitioning of ports, cache, and disk
capacity (parity groups) on Sun StorageTek 9985V systems to create independently managed Virtual Private
Storage Machines. These logical partitions allocate separate, independently managed, dedicated storage
resources for specific users (servers, applications, etc.), and available only to those users.
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