Hitachi Ops Center Automator is a software solution that gives tools to automate and simplify end-to-end processes, such as storage provisioning, for storage and data center administrators. The building blocks of the product are prepackaged automation templates known as service templates. These preconfigured templates are customized to your specific environment and processes for creating services that automate complex tasks such as resource provisioning. When configured, Ops Center Automator integrates with existing applications to automate common infrastructure management tasks by utilizing your existing infrastructure services.
Ops Center Automator includes the following features:
- Preconfigured service templates that help in creating automation services
- Automation services for intelligent provisioning of volumes from different storage classes
- Role-based access to defined services
- Performance-based pool selection that chooses the best performing pools from infrastructure groups and gives pool information to each task for specifying the volume usage details
- Common service management attributes that can be assigned and shared across all automation services