Service detail
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) is a suite of infrastructure management software that can centralise, automate, and simplify the management of complex and heterogeneous storage environments. It can help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructures, improve storage capacity utilisation and improve administration efficiency. It allows you to respond to on demand business storage needs and brings together, in a single point, the management of storage devices, fabric and data.
Highlights
- Designed to address the complexity of managing heterogeneous storage infrastructures
- Facilitates improvement in storage capacity utilisation and administrative efficiency
- Centralises storage devices, fabric and data
- Provides implementation plan and installation and skills transfer
This solution provides a services specialist to:
- Conduct a planning session and review your responses to the questionnaire about your storage environment and needs
- Install the TotalStorage Productivity Center - Standard Edition on the designated server
- Configure the following services on the TotalStorage Productivity Center server
TotalStorage Productivity Center for disk
TotalStorage Productivity Center for data
TotalStorage Productivity Center for fabric
- Configure data agents on supported operating systems
- Configure fabric agents on supported fabric components
- Provide an installation record
- Provide basic usage skills instruction to your designated technical personnel
The implemented solution can help you identify, evaluate, control and predict the growth of data through its lifecycle in order to meet storage service levels in accordance with IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and data retention requirements.

