There are hardly any tools to truely automate a Multivendor Storage Services Environment. Storage Admin's are stuck with Veriety of Independent Web interfaces or commandline tools with little or no common semantics for common configuration elements or a provisioning activities. The procedures are generally convoluted with myriad manual settings... This is the most realistic dipiction of Multi-vendor Storage Administrators Plight... I was a ECC( http://www.emc.com/products/family/controlcenter-family.htm ) user and large-size env.. EMC Storage admin.. ECC got very close... but it was pig... to slow. Good for Symmetrix..Weak for for Clariion and third party arrays.. There are tools like NetAPP SanScreen( http://www.netapp.com/us/products/management-software/sanscreen/sanscreen-service-insight.html ), Symantec Command Central( and HP AppIQ( http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/software/bto/srmgt/index.html ), itheon's SRA http://www.itheon.com/solutions/storage_resource_analysis.htm...