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Product Description The HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance is a centralized, appliance-based monitoring and management solution for the SAN. Connected directly to the fabric, it performs management functions outside of the data path and without involving host computers, allowing data transfers to proceed independently between computers and storage devices.The Storage Management Appliance optimizes SAN availability and performance while streamlining manageability by enabling policy-based automation of repetitive storage management tasks. It provides an intuitive, web-based interface and storage management aggregation point enabling the user to organize, configure, visualize, monitor, and provision storage from anywhere, anytime. The Storage Management Appliance includes HSG Element Manager and provides support for HP OpenView Storage Operations Manager. This combined solution delivers easy-to-use tools for centralized management of Enterprise Virtual Array and EMA/MA Arrays on the SAN, as well as the foundation for comprehensive enterprise storage resource management across multi-vendor platforms in the network storage infrastructure.The Storage Management Appliance supports a variety of additional value-added storage management applications from HP, as well as popular virus protection, backup, system management, and UPS software products.
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