topic Re: CONFUSED WITH DFM, ONCOMMAND MANAGER, OPERATIONS MANAGER in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

CONFUSED WITH DFM, ONCOMMAND MANAGER, OPERATIONS MANAGER

NAYABRASOOL — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:18:30 GMT

Hi Experts,

Its bit confusing for me to understand the difference between Data Fabric Manager, Operations manager , On Command System Manager. Can anybody explain me in detail about these and also advise which will be better to have it in my environment i already have DFM which is 3.1 Version and please suggest how to upgrade this to the latest version as well.

Hope Operations Manager was a part of DFM then why both have different Consoles??? Please help me out to understand this.

Thanks

Nayab

Re: CONFUSED WITH DFM, ONCOMMAND MANAGER, OPERATIONS MANAGER

NAYABRASOOL — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:45:12 GMT

Oops My DFM version is 3.0.1

Re: CONFUSED WITH DFM, ONCOMMAND MANAGER, OPERATIONS MANAGER

txskibum2000 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:19:04 GMT

DFM is for reporting and alerting. Operation Manager (and Provisioning and Protection Manager) is another name and modules for DFM. System Manager is GUI for Managing (creating/deleting) Aggregates and Volumes, etc. One other piece of the puzzle is Management Console...performance views/charts of your storage system. If you are running version 3.0.1, it may be time to upgrade! The latest version of DFM is (renamed again) OnCommand Unified Manager Core 5.1. -check the Release notes, System requirements, and Matrix, to see if it fits with your environment. This will be a major upgrade for you.