Hitachi 9900 User Manual

common model with which all vendors can work. A CIM-enabled storage management
environment will deliver significant benefits to customers, including the ability to:

1. Overcome the Challenges Created by De-coupling Storage 
Resources from Specific Server(s) in a SAN
Neither a single vendor solution nor individual point solutions can meet customers’

long-term comprehensive storage management and interoperability requirements.
Customers need assurance that products deployed today can be expanded and enhanced to
meet emerging interoperability requirements by adherence to open industry standards, such
as CIM.

2. View and Operate Networked Storage as a Holistic Resource
CIM provides a common, normalized, yet extensible view of these resources, their

relationships, and the operations that can be performed against them.

By spanning the management of all components in the storage stack, from the

application to the physical storage medium, CIM allows a management application to be as
focused or all-encompassing as it needs to be, all within a single standard. 

3. Avoid Being "Locked" into a Proprietary Management Environment
Storage management vendors supporting heterogeneous, interoperable environments

must differentiate their value based on products, services, and solutions, and not because
their customers are locked into distinct management frameworks incompatible with other
SAN elements. Customers who choose new and innovative companies that can create
competitive or complementary functionality (built on existing management infrastructure
and components based on the CIM standard) realize investment protection, greater choice,
purchasing leverage, and additional options.

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