Hitachi Command Suite 8 User Guide

installation options, see the Hitachi Command Suite Installation and
Configuration Guide.
Related concepts
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Features  on page 21
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What's new  on page 22
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System configuration  on page 23
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Navigating the interface  on page 27
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Navigating help  on page 29
Related tasks
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Logging in to Hitachi Command Suite  on page 39
Features Hitachi Command Suite provides a wide variety of security, scalability, datamigration, replication, performance, and administrative features for
managing your storage system...

• Supports optimized application performance with an installed TieredStorage Manager license when DP pools are configured to support
performance tiers. Using the Mobility tab, you can optimize data placement tasks when migrating online data between tiers.
• Supports analyzing storage system performance with an installed Hitachi Tuning Manager license, by using the Analytics tab.
• Integrates with other products and software tools that provide extended capabilities. For example, integration with Hitachi...

Tiered Storage Manager now supports:
• For the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, Tiered Storage Manager supports the following functionality for shrinking pools without changing
the number of tiers and without substituting tiers.
○ When you shrink a pool during data relocation, the data relocation
continues after pool shrinkage is complete.
○ When relocating data after pool shrinkage is complete, you can relocate
the data based on the monitoring before the pool shrinkage.
This list highlights new...

Management servers
• The management server is where HCS is installed. • The management server communicates with management clients, storage systems, pair management servers, file-servers, and hosts over LAN
connections.
• Additional software can be installed on the management server to provide extended management capabilities.
• The management server can be configured in an active-standby cluster configuration consisting of two physical servers.
Management server components
The HCS base installation...

HCS uses this component to manage storage system volumes.
• Tiered Storage Manager server Tiered Storage Manager uses this component to manage storage systemvolume migration.
• Replication Manager server Replication Manager uses this component to manage storage systemvolume replication.
• Host Data Collector HCS uses this component to collect information about the volumes used bythe hosts.Note:  The Host Data Collector component can be installed on other
servers and accessed remotely by HCS.
Management...

For information about performing the base installation, see the Hitachi
Command Suite Installation and Configuration Guide .
For information about customizing and extending the base installation, see
the  Hitachi Command Suite Administrator Guide .
Related concepts
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About Hitachi Command Suite  on page 20
Process flow The following graphic illustrates the flow of system operations when usingHitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager.
• Server configuration steps are related to installing...

Navigating the interfaceHitachi Command Suite provides a sophisticated interface with elements suchas menus, tabs, navigation options, application details, status information
and search options supporting ease of use and flexibility for storage and server resources.
Interface elements • Global task bar - always visible, forward/back navigation buttons, clickable navigation history (down arrow), menu access to licensing and help (Help),launching licenced options (Tools), and Log Out for exiting Hitachi...

• Search - always visible, provides keyword and criteria-based search.• Navigation pane - differs by tab, provides access to resources and commonly-used tasks.
• Application pane - differs by tab, provides resource summary information, resource object list, and related drill down details.
• Global monitoring bar - always visible, provides links for submitted tasks by status.
Navigation pane
• Accordion menus provide easy access to resource trees.
• Resize panes by dragging divider bars. Collapse panes by...

• Right-click a table heading and select menu options, such as Hide Columnor Show all Columns.
• Arrange columns by using drag-and-drop.
• Sort lists by clicking the column title.
• Navigate large lists by using Page controls. • Click Filter to reduce large lists, or to find specific items by defining specific search conditions. Filter allows multiple conditions to be defined.
• In a list, click a link to display more detail about the item. As you drill- down, the breadcrumb list ( item > detail ) above...

Navigating
• To navigate between topics, use the navigation pane, or right-click the topic and select Back or Forward.
• Use the breadcrumb trail at the top of each topic to see your location, or to return to a higher level topic.
• To find information for a specific topic, click the Related topics links.
Using navigation buttons• Contents Open book icons in the navigation pane to reveal topic entries and
subsections. As you move through Help, the current topic is highlighted.
• Index An alphabetical...