One of the biggest challenges in IT is visibility into how your assets are being utilized. This is true for many IT assets but particularly storage. However just like with your own eyesight without correct vision you will lack clarity and depth of vision into how storage is being consumed.
So treat yourself this New Year to vision correctness surgery for your Data Center. SANscreen 5.0 just released provides that level of visibility. With clarity comes solace and happiness in the datacenter. Treat yourself to a vision makeover this new year.
For example see the following chart which provides detailed chargeback reports based on the Business Unit consumers of the storage.
SANscreen 5.0 benefits include:
- Understanding storage capacity usage trends: By tracking usage trends over time, storage teams can quickly identify changes in storage usage
- Generating usage forecasts: Projecting future usage on all storage entities enables storage teams to properly plan and justify future storage purchases
- Planning future allocations: Based on projected storage usage, storage administrators can calculate when and how much storage needs to be allocated and/or purchased for each chargeback group
- Developing chargeback reports: Storage administrators can generate detailed chargeback reports
- Determining whether additional storage is really required: IT teams can avoid overprovisioning storage by relying on accurate forecasts of user demand
- Identifying available configured storage: By identifying available configured storage, IT can easily allocate storage to the requesting groups
- Reclaiming orphaned storage: Administrators can quickly reclaim unused storage that has been allocated to hosts but remains idle, and can easily reallocate it to other hosts as needed
- Reclaiming overprovisioned storage: Storage administrators can identify where storage is currently underutilized (and forecasted to remain underutilized) and reclaim the unused storage
For more information on SANscreen benefits see the following paper http://media.netapp.com/documents/wp-7060-empowering-it.pdf
Oh and like Lasik this Data Center Vision Correctness with SANscreen 5.0 can be performed as simple outpatient surgery. It doesn't require agent installs, major system upgrades or is disruptive in any way. In less than a few weeks in most cases you'll have 20-20 datacenter vision.
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