IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center V5.2

IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center V5.2 provides more efficient virtualization management and data protection for heterogeneous storage environments.

It helps IT storage managers migrate to an agile cloud-based storage environment and manage it more effectively without having to replace existing storage systems.

This offering helps remove the physicality of storage, as well as the complexity associated with managing multivendor infrastructures. It helps to optimize provisioning, capacity, availability, data protection, reporting, and management for virtualized storage.

SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center V5.2 offers both a storage virtualization platform and capabilities for storage virtualization management. It delivers to customers under one licensed software product, the complete set of advanced functions available in the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Storage Analytics Engine, all of the functions available for virtualization, remote-mirroring and FlashCopy of the IBM System Storage SVC, and all the capabilities of the Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.

SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center V5.2
offers following capabilities that help provide for:

Automated optimization of the cross-platform, virtual storage environment with storage pool balancing and storage tier analysis, and virtual volume transformation
A web-based user interface that helps provide improved device management, custom tags, and agent-less (unmanaged) server management
Performance troubleshooting enhancements with a performance monitor and health view, threshold violation views with charts, and simplified views of performance information for all resources
Replication management of SVC Change Volumes, the lower-bandwidth, remote mirroring
Performance improvements for remote mirroring
Volume provisioning with greater ease of use in the web-based user interface and influencing of the Storage Management API for cloud (SMAC)
Volume performance reports by server, unmanaged server, and hypervisor, and performance data exports to multi-tab Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
Extension of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center benefits into the VMware vCenter through the web client extension
Enhanced VMware support as a vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA) provider
Extension of block-storage provisioning capabilities to the SmartCloud Storage Access web portal, which is available separately
Optional separate licensing available for the integrated IBM real-time compression capability that enables use of compression for production data
Optional separate licensing available for the SmartCloud Storage Access program product that provides a self-service portal to SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center provisioning functions

Planned availability date

October 25, 2013: Electronic (eGA)
November 22, 2013: Media (pGA)