Operations Manager

Software

NetApp Operations Manager Simplify management of your NetApp storage environment

KEY BENEFITS Simplify Management Use minimal IT resources to centrally manage your NetApp® SAN and NAS infrastructure. Maximize Availability Automatically detect potential problems and take corrective action to prevent downtime. Enable Business Policy Compliance Meet business policy requirements with our enterprise-wide configuration management, distributed policy setting, and customized reporting. Reduce TCO Reduce costs by optimizing your resource utilization and increasing the productivity and efficiency of your storage management.

THE CHALLENGE

SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT

Taming your complex storage infrastructure As your enterprise grows, so do the challenges of managing it. With numerous business-critical applications perpetually expanding your data storage needs, maintaining visibility into your complex storage infrastructure is a tough challenge.

With NetApp Operations Manager, you can streamline management of your NetApp storage infrastructure. Our simple, centralized administration tool enables comprehensive management of your enterprise storage with minimal IT resources.

THE SOLUTION Centralize management of your NetApp storage infrastructure with NetApp Operations Manager NetApp Operations Manager provides you with the centralized management, monitoring, and reporting tools you need to optimize your NetApp storage and meet your business policy requirements. As the key component of the storage suite in our integrated manageability software family, NetApp Operations Manager helps your storage administrators resolve problems faster and improve capacity utilization by providing a full picture of your NetApp storage resources.

Control management resources You get flexible control of your management resources with role-based access controls that let you assign roles to users based on their specific responsibilities. Reduce downtime With NetApp Operations Manager, you can detect potential bottlenecks and take corrective action before performance is impacted. Using the Performance Advisor monitoring feature, you establish thresholds and alerts for all metrics that are key indicators of system performance. Automatic monitoring and alerting enable you to proactively solve problems and maintain high system availability. Once you receive an alert, our software tools provide you with the ability to easily drill down for details about any event or device and uncover the information you need to quickly resolve potential problems.

ENABLE BUSINESS POLICY COMPLIANCE You can achieve complete compliance with your business policies using the enterprisewide configuration management, distributed policy setting, and customized reporting features provided by NetApp Operations Manager. Enforce standardization By standardizing the configuration process, you can accelerate deployment and mitigate operational risks. To simplify configuration, NetApp Operations Manager lets you view, edit, and apply one or more configuration templates to any number or group of systems. Gain visibility into your storage infrastructure With NetApp Operations Manager, you can continuously monitor and analyze the health of your storage environment. You get a better view of what is deployed and how it is being utilized, enabling you to improve your storage capacity utilization and increase the productivity and efficiency of your IT administrators.

File Storage Resource Manager, a licensable option of Operation Manager, helps you understand and manage the types of files in your storage environment. Data is classified by file size, file age, modification history, access history, file type, usage, and file owner usage. This data classification information provides a clear picture of your company’s data, enabling you to put policies in place to automatically eliminate stale data, unused data, and data stored by personnel who are no longer with your company. Get detailed reports Make storage management more proactive and effective with reports to track storage growth and trending. See how each volume is being used, graph respective data growth, and apply this information to existing and future storage requirements and utilization. You can also create your own customized reports to meet your individual business requirements and implement storage charge-back processes.

REDUCE TCO With NetApp Operations Manager, you can dramatically reduce costs by optimizing your existing storage utilization and minimizing the IT resources needed to manage your storage infrastructure. You’ll buy less storage and increase the efficiency and productivity of your IT staff. PARTNER FOR SUCCESS When you partner with our Professional Services and Global Support teams, you gain access to our extensive storage expertise, innovative technologies, and best practices. You can accelerate the return on your infrastructure investments and get the most business benefit from them. We respond quickly to your problems, no matter where in the world they occur, and with one of the most flexible support programs in the industry, you always get just the support you need for your unique IT and business requirements.

Figure 1) NetApp Operations Manager monitoring and management tools. NetApp Operations Manager helps your storage administrators resolve problems faster and improve capacity utilization by providing a full picture of your NetApp storage resources.

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