Software

NetApp Operations Manager

Simplify management of your NetApp storage environment

KEY BENEFITS
Simplify management
Centralize and automate your storage
management workflows.
Maximize availability
Automatically detect potential
problems and take corrective action
to prevent downtime.
Help reduce TCO
Optimize your resource utilization
andincrease the efficiency of your
storage management.
Enable business policy compliance
Meet business policy requirements
with our enterprise-wide configuration
management, distributed policy
setting, and customized reporting.

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 tooptimize
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
canstreamline management of your
NetAppstorage 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.
Maximize availability
With NetApp Operations Manager, you
candetect 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 indi
cators 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 drill down for details
about any event or device and uncover the
information you need to quicklyresolve
potential problems.
REDUCE TCO
With NetApp Operations Manager, you can
reduce costs by optimizing your existing
storage utilization and minimizing the IT
resources needed to manage your storage
infrastructure. Youll buy less storage and
increase the efficiency and productivity
ofyour IT staff.

ENABLE BUSINESS POLICY

COMPLIANCE
You can achieve 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
andmitigate 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 useful picture of your
companys 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. Get intelligent, comprehensive reports of utilization and trend information to support your capacity planning,
space usage, and backup allocation. See
how physical resources are impacted by
data utilization and deduplication.
You can also create your own customized
reports to meet your individual business
requirements and implement storage
charge-back processes.

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.
MANAGE FROM A BUSINESS
PERSPECTIVE
Our goal is to help you manage data from
abusiness perspective. Thats why we made
Operations Manager a key component in our
Manageability Software Family, a comprehensive software solution set that enables
administrators to manage data across app
lications, databases, servers and storage.
Thesoftware provides common management services, integration, security, and
rolebased access controls. The NetApp
Manageability Software Family offers data and
storage management tools that increase
productivity, storage efficiency, and agility
for organizations of all sizes.

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.

NetApp creates innovative storage and

datamanagement solutions that accelerate
business breakthroughs and deliver
outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the
world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

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