IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center in Virtual Infrastructure Environments

Many customers have adopted VMware ESX as their server consolidation and virtualization solution. This IBM® Redpaper™ publication explains how to plan for IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center monitoring of your VMware ESX environment. This paper is intended for storage administrators who will plan for and configure Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to Monitor VMware servers and then produce reports. This paper guides you through the required steps to successfully complete these tasks. In addition, this paper includes several scenarios that show you how to use Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to monitor your VMware environment.

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Publish Date
01 September 2011

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Author(s)

Mary Lovelace is a Consulting IT Specialist at the ITSO. She has experience with IBM in large systems, storage and Storage Networking product education, system engineering and consultancy, and system support. She has written IBM Redbooks publications about Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Scale Out Network Attached Storage, and IBM z/OS storage products.

• Mary Lovelace

Harsha Gunatilaka is a Software Engineer for Tivoli Storage Software in Tucson, AZ. He is currently part of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center development and test team. He is an IBM Certified Deployment Professional on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and has experience with a wide array of IBM storage products and software. He holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

• Harsha Gunatilaka

Hector Hugo Ibarra is an Infrastructure IT Architect, specializing in cloud computing and storage solutions. He is based in Argentina and is currently working at the IBM Argentina Delivery Center. In 2006, Hector was designated as the ITA Leader for The VMware Center of Competence. He specializes in virtualization technologies and has assisted several IBM clients in deploying virtualized infrastructures around the world.

• Hector Hugo Ibarra

IBM Form Number
REDP-4471-01

Number of pages

100