Former Name: BrightStor CA-ASTEX Performance, CA-ASTEX, CA-ASTEX Cache Manager, CA-ASTEX DASD Manager, CA-ASTEX Migration Manager, CA-ASTEX Storage Manager
Business size: Enterprise
Category: Storage and Recovery Management
What is CA ASTEX™ Performance?
CA ASTEX enables DASD analysts to meet service-level objectives by analyzing usage trends and more effectively allocating and caching data sets. It creates a storage hierarchy appropriately locating data based on usage frequency. This reduces DASD waste and minimizes access time for high-usage data, increasing system throughput and productivity.
What storage challenges does it meet?
CA ASTEX proactively enables IT management to identify potential data access bottlenecks and reorganize that data to meet evolving usage needs. By proactively interceding in data access bottlenecks, CA ASTEX helps sustain higher application performance to achieve IT service level goals.
What features does it offer?
Performance monitoring features enable proactive response to decaying performance issues. CA ASTEX offers storage parameter management with “what-if” scenarios and expertise regarding usage and trend operating recommendations. It provides management for dataset allocation, PDS, caching, load balancing and volume reorganization.
What platforms does it support?
CA ASTEX supports performance management of z/OS storage including support for AASF function in Softek TDMF 2.2, IBM System Storage DS8000 series (machine type 2107 "Shark"), IBM 2105 (“Shark”) Enterprise Storage Server (ESS). IBM compatible storage controllers from AMDAHL, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and STK are also supported.