Storage Management Tool
- Storage Management Tool
- a software tool
that provides management, analysis, and reporting of heterogeneous and distributed physical and logical data storage
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Storage Management Tool is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
- Type: Concrete
- Superclass: Tool
- Subclasses: None
The typical responsibilities of a Storage Management Tool are to:
- Support enterprise or organizational storage standards and procedures.
- Ensure that enterprise storage:
- Is available and reliable.
- Has acceptable performance.
- Is scalable to meet future data requirements.
- Has an acceptable total-cost-of-ownership (TCO).
- Monitor all physical storage.
- Report on physical and logical storage resources.
- Provide unified and configurable views of heterogeneous and distributed storage resources.
- Provide predictive estimates of storage size and trends by platform, storage type, file system, etc.
- Provide data compression, replication, and mirroring.
- Provide data security.
- Provide storage automation.
