EMC ProSphere Storage Resource Management (SRM)

EMC announced the solution of resource management of new generation EMC ProSphere Storage Resource Management (SRM) in July, 2011. ProSphere was specially developed taking into account fast-growing requirements of the enterprises which migrate on model of cloud computing with high extent of virtualization. Using the federal architecture ProSphere provides the broad picture of all resources of storage irrespective of their arrangement that allows to execute in one window performance management from a host and to storage system, its monitoring and the analysis. Such key new features as a bezagentnoyeobnaruzheniye, the policy of management of Smart Groups and close integration with the newest technologies of storage and virtualization of EMC and VMware, give to users of ProSphere powerful modern tools for simplification of infrastructure management of storage of new generation.

When the enterprises pass into highly virtualized environment and to cloud computing more and more, the additional levels of an abstragtion appearing because of virtual selection of resources of automatic data movement between levels of storage and other technologies of storage virtualization considerably change requirements to effective management of storage. That administrators of storage could cope with quickly changing configurations of infrastructure and correctly managed levels of service, new tools and abilities to manage are necessary for them. Users of EMC Control Center who have a service contract can pass free of charge to ProSphere that provides them a simple way of transition to use of additional opportunities of this solution for virtual infrastructures and infrastructures of cloud storage.

EMC ProSphere gives to customers an ability to manage the increasing and distributed environments, integrating models of virtualization and hybrid cloud computing. The federal architecture of ProSphere is scaled to the sizes, completely meeting requirements biggest data centers in the world. The solution is installed and detects the majority of corporate environments no more than for 8 h ProSphere allows the enterprises to achieve economy of purchase costs and current expenses on virtualization and cloud storage due to the maximum increase in productivity, efficiency of use of resources, performance and increase in levels of services.

Main functionality and advantages of a product

• Agentless detection saves from need of installation of programs agents and management of them.
• The new Smart Groups technology simplifies the policy of management due to consolidation in user groups and objects with similar characteristics. Smart Groups significantly improves efficiency of operation in quickly growing and highly virtualized environment.
• The federal architecture provides end-to-end management of several platforms from one console irrespective of location.
• The new intuitive user interface based on the browser issues the broad picture several clicks therefore the user can easily find out difficult interdependence in the big virtualized environment and fix the related problems.
• Monitoring, close to real time, and the analysis provides operational and detailed information about levels of service.
• Fast deployment and updating: Unrolled as the virtual ProSphere application is installed less than for 1 h, and complete inspection of the majority of corporate environments takes no more than 8 h. Updating of ProSphere is executed just using the interface based on the browser.
• Reduction of requirements to the equipment: ProSphere reduces number of physical servers which are necessary for work of this application, for 75% in comparison with the predecessor.

2014: Storage Resource Management v.3.0

On January 30, 2014 the EMC company announced a release of the new version of a packet of Storage Resource Management Suite 3.0.

The packet of SRM Suite 3.0 in combination with software-defined storage system of EMC ViPR 1.1 provides optimization appliances and the cost reductions connected with operation of infrastructure on the second platform and predetermine a further way of development.

Are added to a packet of SRM Suite:

• the means of the deep analysis and visualization giving the chance to manage data storage environments with components from different producers via the simple and usual user interface;
• transparent integration with ViPR thanks to what customers can use the uniform management concept covering both traditional, and software-defined environments;
• support of the solution EMC Data Protection Advisor which allows to execute replication and the analysis in scales of all infrastructure and provides protection and data recovery in any application environments according to politicians of replication.