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
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.
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.
SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT
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.
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 enterprise-
wide 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.
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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.
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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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.
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