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Features

HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software provides a wide variety
of security, scalability, data migration, replication, performance, and administrative features for
managing your storage system needs in this release.

HP StorageWorks P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite software includes the following
functionality:

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Server architecture supports resource scalability (millions of storage objects) and geographic
scalability.

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Provides secure remote management over Internet and wide area networks (WANs) using a
sophisticated web client.

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Provides multiple levels of security and access for storage administrators, integration with external
authentication servers, and use of resource groups to control access to specific resources.

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Security tools to prevent unauthorized access, such as account locking, and restricted login retry
attempts.

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Provides for automation scripts using component CLIs.

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Supports agentless discovery and mapping of servers (hosts) and storage.

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Supports hosts such as Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and Linux.

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Supports virtualization servers such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.

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Supports FC and FCoE connected hosts.

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Supports a wide variety of block and SMI-S compliant storage systems.

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Supports virtualization of volumes from external storage.

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Supports volume migration between supported source and target storage systems.

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Provides simplified volume provisioning in complex environments.

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Provides logical, physical, and host view storage management.

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Provides efficient, cost effective use of storage capacity as needed using THP pools.

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Supports optimized application performance with an installed Tiered Storage Manager license
when THP pools are configured to support performance tiers. Using the Mobility tab, you can
optimize data placement tasks when migrating online data between tiers.

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Provides keyword and criteria based searching of managed resources, and managed resource
reporting with data export to CSV files.