If you wish to monitor capacity and troubleshoot performance of applications, understand the SAN resources that the applications are dependent on and  monitor capacity usage at a department level, then checkout V5.2.5 of IBM Spectrum Control (IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center). In V5.2.5 of IBM Spectrum Control for you can:     - Model applications in GPFS environments where filesets are primary containers of application storage.     - View a hierarchy list to better understand the application and... [More]

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YES!!! Not only is there a video that shows the GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) related capabilities in IBM Spectrum Control (IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, V5.2.5), but its narrated by SME Christian Bolik, a member of the development team that deals primarily with GPFS functionality. When it comes to storage resources, IBM Spectrum Control revolves around the concept of storage systems. To accommodate this, a GPFS cluster is treated by IBM Spectrum Control as a file storage system, comparable to IBM Storwize V7000 Unified, or NetApp filers.... [More]

Determining when and how you are alerted to conditions and violations of performance thresholds within a storage environment is important to helping you maintain and administer storage resources. In Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, V5.2.5 (IBM Spectrum Control), the notification feature was improved to enable you to specify global settings for alert notifications in one, central location. Alerts can define notification actions that send email, generate Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps, or generate IBM® Tivoli®... [More]

Optimize your storage infrastructure with data driven insights ! IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights is an analytics-driven, storage resource management solution that is delivered over the Cloud. The solution uses Cloud technology to provide visibility into on-premise storage – with the goal of helping clients optimize their storage environments in today's data-intense world. This SaaS solution running on SoftLayer can deploy in as little as 5 minutes and show actionable insights in 30 minutes. IBM Spectrum Control Storage... [More]

IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure (Tivoli) Storage Manager, FlashCopy Manager, Productivity Center Suite and TSM FastBack newsletters.  These communications are designed to help you derive maximum value from your software by providing you with helpful e-Support technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information. http://ow.ly/qGkLH - Click here for the Tivoli Storage Manager edition      or http://ow.ly/qGlq1 - Click here for the previous month's edition... [More]

After the recent, very insightful, and extremely successful IBM InterConnect 2015 Conference in Las Vegas, IBM continues the momentum with the release of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (IBM Spectrum Control), V5.2.5.                 In this release, the development team extends support for GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) and adds even more user-friendly enhancements to augment your data collection; this marks the third consecutive release that feature enhancements, support, and user improvements were... [More]

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IBM Knowledge Center houses the documentation for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and all IBM products .     Select the version, for example, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.6 , that applies to your environment and away you go!  To quickly find new features for a release, click New for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. IBM Knowledge Center enables you to search and browse across multiple IBM product documentation sets, create your own customized views of IBM content,... [More]

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We want to improve the wiki and to improve, we need your help. If you can give us 2 minutes (only 120 seconds!), we can make some meaningful changes.   Here's the survey link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1981235/Tivoli-Storage-Manager-wiki   The survey will be active until 27 February. Thanks, in advance, for your help. We'll share what we learn so you can see the results.   

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IBM (Tivoli) Storage Manager, FlashCopy Manager, Productivity Center Suite and TSM FastBack newsletters.  These communications are designed to help you derive maximum value from your software by providing you with helpful e-Support technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information. http://ow.ly/qGkLH - Click here for the Tivoli Storage Manager edition      or http://ow.ly/qGlq1 - Click here for the previous month's edition http://ow.ly/qGkYa - Tivoli Storage Manger... [More]