SOLUTION OVERVIEW EMC Storage Management Solution Simplify EMC Symmetrix Management Mainframes continue to support the world’s most mission-critical applications. Many organizations using mainframes have very large and complex information management environments that span multiple storage units across geographic sites. Storage administrators require a solution that simpli- fies management, is easy to use, and reduces the amount of effort to plan, provision, and monitor storage resources. The EMC ® Storage Management Solution consists of a suite of products that meet the demands of mainframe environments. For configuration, management, and monitoring of the EMC Symmetrix ® storage arrays, EMC provides a GUI-based interface in addition to the well-known Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) interface. The EMC Storage and Performance Management Solution consists of the following products: EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) is an intuitive, browser-based graphical interface for managing Symmetrix systems. It is hosted on a small server and is accessed via a web browser. Because of its lightweight architecture, SMC is an ideal graphical complement to the CLI (command-line interface) when you need to perform device management of a Symmetrix system. The SMC provides the following functionality: • Efficient GUI-based array management • Manage CKD devices and device groups • Manage and monitor local and remote replication • Manage and monitor quality-of-service functionality The Big Picture • Automates configuration set-up, monitor- ing, replication, and alerts, reducing typical mainframe storage management task completion from hours to minutes • Flexibility of a GUI-based and ISPF interface to view and monitor Symmetrix storage arrays • Ease-of-use features simplify day-to-day Symmetrix management • Automated trending to assist in long-term decisions, including system upgrades and consolidation • Reduces total cost of ownership