Ops Center Administrator overview

Ops Center Administrator reduces infrastructure management complexities and enables a simplified approach to managing storage infrastructures. It has intuitive graphical user interfaces and recommended configuration practices to streamline system configurations and storage management processes.

You can use Administrator to easily provision new storage capacity for business applications without requiring in-depth knowledge of the underlying infrastructure resource details. It provides centralized management while reducing the number of steps to configure, optimize, and deploy new infrastructure resources.

Some of the key capabilities include:

• Simplified user experience for managing infrastructure resources. Visual aids enable easy viewing and interpretation of key management information, such as used and available capacity, and guide features that help you to quickly determine the next steps for a specific management task.
• Recommended system configurations to speed initial storage system setup and accelerate new infrastructure resource deployments.
• Integrated configuration workflows with Hitachi recommended practices to streamline storage provisioning and data protection tasks.
  Note: In the Ops Center Administrator provisioning workflow, a unique LU number is assigned to each volume within a server for each storage system. If you attempt to attach a volume using an LU number that has already been assigned to another volume within the same server, the provisioning job will fail. If you need to do this, use Add LUs to Host Groups instead, or use a different management tool for provisioning. See Adding volumes to host groups as logical units for more information.
• Common, centralized management for supported storage systems.
• Automated SAN zoning during volume attach and detach. Optional auto-zoning eliminates the need for repetitive zoning tasks on the switch.