Veritas Operations Manager Advanced (VOM Advanced) improves storage service management by aligning IT to business objectives. VOM Advanced offers business information executives and storage administrators the following:

VOM Advanced includes a central reporting interface for your storage infrastructure that unifies information from multiple datacenters . It organizes the information along the lines of your business. If you are a business information executive, you can use VOM Advanced to view your storage environment at the enterprise level. You can then drill down into your organization's hierarchy, which you can organize by location, departments, or any other logical business unit. This summarized information enables you to assess trends in your storage environment, which you can then analyze to assign responsibility.

If you are a storage administrator, you can use VOM Advanced to identify capacity trends and review storage inventory. You can also determine your storage costs per business unit. With this information, you can promote storage accountability and decrease costs.

Use VOM Advanced to answer questions like the following:

Storage administrators and business users operate VOM Advanced with Veritas Operations Manager. /The Veritas Operations Manager provides reporting for a single datacenter and is used at an operational level. But, VOM Advanced lets you aggregate storage information from multiple datacenters and view storage assets by a variety of business dimensions. A business information executive can use VOM Advanced to identify the trend of unclaimed tier 1 storage in your New York and Zurich datacenters . You can then ask the storage administrators at each site to use Veritas Operations Manager to find out which arrays or LUNs are unclaimed.