Synergy with BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware

To benefit from a complete monitoring of HP EVA disk arrays, BMC Performance Manager Express for HP EVA needs to be used in conjunction with BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware.

•	BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware discovers all the physical components a disk array, that is: controllers, disks, power supplies, fans, network and fiber ports, and reports hardware failures on these components. Additionally, it monitors the traffic on each network and fiber port.

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BMC Performance Manager Express for HP EVA monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your HP EVA environment, such as file disk space usage, storage controller utilization, I/Os on the disks/controllers/volumes, etc. It continuously monitors the activity of each filer and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics.

The complete storage monitoring solution architecture is composed of the elements represented in the illustration below.

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Monitoring solution architecture