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APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager

Gain a new perspective on your storage capacity with APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager. With web-based end to end reporting from hosts to the storage arrays it immediately maximizes storage utilization, improves capacity planning and reduces costs.

Increase Management Efficiency

Until now, it has been difficult to get a complete picture of an IT organization's storage capacity. Array vendor tools only provide an array-side view of storage allocation without providing actual usage metrics from the hosts. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager provides end-to-end storage capacity reporting from the hosts to the storage array to give administrators greater control over storage management.

• Automated mapping shows the relationship between each host and LUN in your environment to convey how the storage resources are being used.
  
• Host utilization show the amount of storage capacity allocated and used by each host
  
• Array utilization shows the amount of allocated storage from each storage array
  
• Application utilization identifies the amount of storage used vs. allocated by application

Maximize Resources. Reduce Costs.

In the face of continuous storage growth and reduced IT budgets, storage administrators are tasked with finding more storage capacity with reduced budgets. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager helps you maximize the use of your existing storage, and reduce costs by delaying new storage purchases.

• Reduce CapEx spending on new storage by maximizing utilization of existing storage. Identify over provisioned storage or orphaned LUNs that can be reclaimed for other storage users.
• Acquire new storage at a reduced cost by delaying new storage purchases until absolutely necessary. Storage densities are increasing while the cost of storage is decreasing.
• Future forecasting enables you to coordinate storage purchases with corporate purchasing cycles which prevent emergency storage purchases.

Precision Forecasting

APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager features a predictive analysis engine that predicts your future storage needs based on your current usage levels and growth metrics, to achieve a level of forecast accuracy previously unattainable. The predictive analysis engine forecasts future usage so you can plan your purchases for maximum savings. Plus you can more precisely allocate storage based on predictive needs in the future.

• See historical and current host storage usage as well as predictive growth in the future
• View historical and current array capacity and predictive growth in the future
• See the historical and current storage consumption from applications and predictive growth trends for the future

Improve Application Availability

Make sure that your mission-critical applications always have the optimum amount of storage that they need, but not too much. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager provides application centric views that show you critical capacity information on your most important applications.

• Proactive monitoring and alerting automatically notifies you if any application is approaching a dangerous threshold.
• Ensure that each application has the optimal allocated storage for it based upon current and historical usage levels
• View application storage usage vs. allocation levels to gain a better understanding of each applications true consumption levels<

Chargebacks

• Chargeback reporting shows the storage consumption levels with the associated costs based on user defined pricing.

Technical Specs:

Supported Storage Arrays:

• Hitachi Data Systems - Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, Network Storage Controller, Adaptable Modular Storage, Workplace Modular Storage, Thunder, Lightning, TagamaStore
• EMC - Clariion, Symmetrix, DMX
• HP - XP Series
• Sun - Sun StorageTek 9900 Series

Supported Hosts:

• Windows
• Solaris
• AIX
• HP-UX
• Linux

Supported Databases:

• Oracle
• MS SQL,
• Exchange

Browsers:

• Internet Explorer 7.0 + or Firefox 2.0+
• Linux: Firefox 2.0+
• Solaris: Firefox 2.0+

Portal OS:

• Solaris 8 - 10
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5
• Windows 2000 or 2003 Server
• SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 & 10