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Use ViPR SRM to:
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Visualize applications to storage dependencies
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Monitor and analyze configurations and capacity growth
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Optimize your environment to improve return on investment
Virtualization enables businesses of all sizes to simplify management, control costs,
and guarantee uptime. However, virtualized environments also add layers of
complexity to the IT infrastructure that reduce visibility and can complicate the
management of storage resources. ViPR SRM addresses these layers by providing
visibility into the physical and virtual relationships to ensure consistent service levels.
As you build out your cloud infrastructure, ViPR SRM helps you ensure storage service
levels while optimizing IT resources — both key attributes of successful cloud
deployments.
ViPR SRM is designed for use in heterogeneous environments containing multi-vendor
networks, hosts, and storage devices. The information it collects and the functionality
it manages can reside on technologically disparate devices in geographically diverse
locations. ViPR SRM moves a step beyond storage management and provides a
platform for cross-domain correlation of device information and resource topology,
and enables a broader view of your storage environment and enterprise data center.
ViPR SRM provides a dashboard view of the storage capacity at an enterprise level
through Watch4net. The Watch4net dashboard view displays information to support
decisions regarding storage capacity.
The Watch4net dashboard consolidates data from multiple ProSphere instances
spread across multiple locations. It gives you a quick overview of the overall capacity
status in your environment, raw capacity usage, usable capacity, used capacity by
purpose, usable capacity by pools, and service levels.
The
EMC ViPR SRM Product Documentation Index provides links to related ViPR
documentation.
vStorage APIs for Array Integration
VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) optimize server performance by
offloading virtual machine operations to arrays running HYPERMAX OS.
The storage array performs the select storage tasks, freeing host resources for
application processing and other tasks.
In VMware environments, storage arrays supports the following VAAI components:
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Full Copy — (Hardware Accelerated Copy) Faster virtual machine deployments,
clones, snapshots, and VMware Storage vMotion
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operations by offloading
replication to the storage array.
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Block Zero — (Hardware Accelerated Zeroing) Initializes file system block and
virtual drive space more rapidly.
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Hardware-Assisted Locking — (Atomic Test and Set) Enables more efficient meta
data updates and assists virtual desktop deployments.
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UNMAP — Enables more efficient space usage for virtual machines by reclaiming
space on datastores that is unused and returns it to the thin provisioning pool from
which it was originally drawn.
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VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA).
Management Interfaces
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