I wanted to let you know that the Storage Manager 5.6 Release Candidate (RC2) is now available to all Storage Manager and Storage Profiler customers on Active Maintenance through 10/1/2013! Download RC2 in your Customer Portal today!
Some of the improvements to Storage Manager 5.6 include:
- A completely new back-end database - MySQL has now been replaced with MariaDB
- IBM SVC - Added Average Read and Write Transfer Size performance metrics
- Improved default memory settings for the Storage Manager server
- Improved preservation of Storage Manager Server configuration files on upgrades
- Improved Storage Manager Server-Storage Manager Agent communication and status
- A significant amount of bug fixes and stability improvements including:
- Improvement in STM polling and database locks
- Specific fixes for IBM DS 6K/8K, EMC VMAX, IBM SVC, and VMware
- And much more!