HP StorageWorks 8/80 HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.5 release notes (AA-RWFH - Page 3

Version: Fabric Manager 5.5 Description Fabric Manager is a powerful application that manages multiple B-Series switches, Directors and fabrics in real time. In particular, Fabric Manager provides the essential functions for configuring, monitoring, dynamically provisioning, and managing B-Series Fibre Channel switch fabrics. Through its single-point Storage Area Network (SAN) management platform, Fabric Manager facilitates the integration and execution of management tasks across multiple fabrics, thereby lowering the overall cost of SAN ownership. As a result, Fabric Manager provides a flexible and powerful tool, optimized to provide organizations with rapid access to critical SAN information. Fabric Manager is tightly integrated with other SAN management products, such as Web Tools and Fabric Watch. Organizations can also use Fabric Manager in conjunction with other leading SAN and storage resource management applications as the drill-down element manager for a single B-Series or multiple B-Series fabrics. These release notes contain information about installing, operating, and maintaining the HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.5 application. Update recommendation HP strongly recommends that users upgrade to Fabric Manager 5.5 as soon as possible. Fabric Manager 5.5 is required to manage the HP StorageWorks 8/8, 8/24, 8/40, and 8/80 8 Gb SAN Switches. Supersedes This version supersedes Fabric Manager version 5.4.0a. Effective date June 2008 Language English HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager 5.5 release notes 3