Originally posted by: bobby_g

By staying in touch with storage, collecting relevant data, and displaying the overall topology, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2 serves as an always current online document for your storage environment. This release continues to offer storage infrastructure management that helps optimize storage management by helping with centralizing, simplifying, automating, and optimizing storage tasks associated with storage systems, data disaster recovery, storage networks, and capacity management.

New in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2:

• A web-based user interface that now provides improved device management, custom tags, and agent-less (unmanaged) server management
• Advanced performance troubleshooting enhancements with a convenient performance monitor and health view, threshold violation views with charts, and easy views to performance information for all resources
• Replication management of SAN Volume Controller Change Volumes, the lower bandwidth remote mirroring solution
• Virtual volume transformation including data compression
• Volume performance reports by server, unmanaged server, and hypervisor, and performance data exports to multitab Microsoft™ Excel spreadsheets
• Extension of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center benefits into VMware vCenter through the web client extension
• Enhanced VMware support as a vSphere API for Storage Awareness provider
• Expanded eligibility for select pricing
   

For more information, see the

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, V5.2 announcement letter