An Introduction to Managing Storage

Russell Warren, Storage Management Development, IBM

This session will discuss managing the storage infrastructure. It will describe the basic of storage management, describe how SMI-S helps with managing diverse storage networks, and provides approaches that can be undertaken to get answers to many storage questions.

Learning Objectives

• Review basics of managing a storage environment and how SMI-S fits with providing better management.
  
• Describe approaches that can be taken and define the goals and objectives that will help you achieve improved management of your storage infrastructure
  
• Tie storage management to enterprise management, including automation, service management and links to your enterprise management solutions