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Standard edition and enterprise edition, 2 chapters that apply to standard edition – HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software User Manual

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Overview

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dependencies and view and manage your infrastructure as a whole. A SAN is a network

configuration that is dedicated to transporting storage data among network devices, such as

storage systems, servers, tape libraries, and switches. Since the SAN is dedicated to transporting

storage data, it frees up the data network for regular TCP/IP traffic.
This product gives your administrators a single, integrated console to manage tactical activities such

as provisioning storage, managing real-time events, installing new applications, and migrating

servers and storage, as well as strategic activities such as forecasting, planning, and cost analysis.

The management server's integrated storage management lowers your cost of acquiring and

managing a heterogeneous storage environment.
Key Benefits

More efficient use of existing assets

Increased application availability and performance

Quicker deployment of storage infrastructure and business applications

Protection of customer flexibility and investments with a standards-based interface

Storage Management Terms

CIM — A common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall

management information in a network/enterprise environment.

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) — An initiative based on a set of management

and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing

environments.

Storage Management Initiative (SMI) — A SNIA standard for implementing data storage

management using CIM.

See the glossary in this user guide for additional definitions.

Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition

HP Storage Essentials is available in a Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. HP Storage

Essentials Standard Edition provides a subset of the functionality of HP Storage Essentials Enterprise

Edition. Some of the features available in Enterprise Edition can be purchased separately for

Standard Edition. To determine which features apply to your product, see the List of Features. For a

list of the devices supported by Standard Edition, see the HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition

Support Matrix. The List of Features and the support matrix are accessible from the Documentation

Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

Table 2

on page 4 describes which chapters in this guide apply to Standard Edition:

Table 2

Chapters That Apply to Standard Edition

Chapter Name

Applies to Standard Edition?

Overview

, page 1

Yes

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