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Chapter 3. Systems Management 

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Storage management with IBM Flex System Manager involves two software components: 
Storage Manager and Storage Control. Both components are included with the management 
software. 

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Storage Manager is a standard management software capability that provides basic 
storage life cycle management (Discovery, Inventory, Health and Alerts). 

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Storage Control is a pre-installed plug-in for the management software that expands 
storage support to mid-range and high-end storage devices.

The Storage Control feature of IBM Flex System Manager allows management of most IBM 
mid-range and high-end storage systems. With the Storage Control plug-in, you can manage 
an expanded set of storage subsystems and Fibre Channel switches.

Storage Control offers the following key advantages:

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Extends storage management of IBM Systems Director and VMControl to cover most IBM 
storage systems 

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Storage device discovery and coverage in integrated physical and logical topology views 

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Shows relationships between storage and server resources 

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Facilitates single management server deployment 

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Provides ability to view controller and volume status and to set notification alerts 

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Virtualize for higher storage utilization 

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Balances high performance and cost for mixed workloads

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Protects data and minimizing downtime 

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Integration with VMControl featuring the following additional functions: 

– Storage provisioning for image creation, deployment, and cloning 

– Ability to manage storage system pool life cycle, take group actions across pool and 

policy-based storage placement, provisioning, and cloning actions within the pool

Storage Control also extends the management capabilities and device coverage of the 
VMControl, which is a tool within the IBM Flex System Manager Node responsible for the life 
cycle management of virtual resources. This collaboration is leveraged in VMControl for tasks 
like working with system pools for items like server and storage pool creation, the image 
library management and storage, and integrated virtualization management across server 
and storage infrastructure.

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You can use Storage Control to monitor the health of storage subsystems, storage pools, 
storage volumes, and fabric switches. You can run inventory against the Storage Control farm 
to see updated health status. 

You can also use Storage Control to manage several external storage subsystems. These 
subsystems include the IBM® DS3000, DS4000®, DS5000, families, the IBM DS8000® 
family (DS8100, DS8300, DS8700, DS8800), the IBM SAN Volume Controller, the IBM 
Storwize V7000, IBM XIV®, Qlogic 8GB Fibre Channel switch, and the McDATA Sphereon 
and Intrepid switches.