Technical Sheet: TeraCloud Storage Framework

Platform and Hardware Independent
Independent of an operating system, file system and hardware storage vendor, TSF enables you to centrally manage storage in any combination of complex heterogeneous environments – including DAS, NAS, SAN and Mainframe-attached storage. TSF’s unified solution maximizes the value of your storage network in all phases of storage management: assessment, monitoring, configuration, allocation, and planning and is totally hardware and platform independent.

Solution Highlights

• Common Storage Management Console - This easy to use interface provides Detail and Summary reporting, History and Trending capabilities as well as Saved User Views and print publishing facilities.
• Scheduled data collection - All collector jobs that gather data and place in databases or flat files may now be scheduled and run via a started task
• Automation IF statements - Process automation IF statements against data collected within the z/OS environment to determine whether further actions are deemed necessary
• View and graph history data - Capture history data in the TSF suite for views and graphs within the interface
• Integrated storage reporting Report on the composition of each volume DAS, SAN, or NAS. Topology view allows the administrator to visually understand the physical makeup of the storage architecture
• Audit Facilities - Interrogate valid and non-valid entries in the storage subsystems to quickly detect invalid status and submit corrective action
• Provides Action Capabilities - Actions are provided for immediate execution from the interface giving the user control over batch or scripted actions against the selected objects.
• Logical Pooling Definitions - View an application set of data that spans all media types (disk, tape, HSM) within the z/OS storage environment
• Dynamic Groups - Define logical groups of data based on how the organization report on business units can now dynamically reflect changes of the data usage patterns.
• Apply policies against groups - Ability to apply policies against groups including the new “dynamic groups” feature. For example, apply a policy to a group to email a warning when the group contains more than 2,000 files.

Challenge

• Keeping storage-related expenses to a minimum
  Monitor your current utilization and track it over time in ways that are easy to customize to fit your organization. TSF helps you to identify future needs based on historical trends.
• Removing repetitive data-gathering tasks
  TSF is on duty 24X7 and has actionable scripts you need to find, migrate, archive, or delete aged data.
• Taking action on the gathered data
  Management by exception alerts you to storage hotspots without constant monitoring by IT staff.
• Getting a central view of storage across platforms
  TSF provides administrators with a centralized view of the storage landscape with text, graphic, and numeric summaries across multiple OS platforms and domains at every level, with drill-down capability from the enterprise down to the file.

 

Simplifying server or storage consolidation
TSF shows you graphically how your data consumes storage resources, giving you the visibility you need to control storage growth and provide necessary levels of service at a lower cost.
Solution
TeraCloud Storage Framework (TSF) provides one single interface for storage data allowing access to multi-platform storage metrics as well as multi-level media within the z/OS platform. Combined with this is greatly expanded automation capabilities on Z Series that allow “Collector Real-Time” automation to be performed on any storage data kept in the repository.
TSF wraps all media (Disk, Tape and HSM) into a product offering that includes reporting for Distributed systems (Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux). The Java interface can be launched from either Windows or Unix platforms yet it can see into any of these worlds of storage using a common storage management console.
Our ProActivity template technology has been enabled on Distributed platforms so actions may be taken when viewing a problem through the interface. Distributed detail and Summary information are now accompanied with greatly expanded graphing capabilities that allow creation of graph sets that can be saved as a default or set aside for periodic access and use as needs dictate. All of this can be customized and printed with a unique object oriented print-engine that allows screen, printer, HTML or PDF style printing.