End-to-End Storage Capacity Reporting

Today storage administrators face the challenge of managing ever-growing amounts of data with limited resources and constrained budgets. They must maximize current storage utilization in their existing infrastructure without sacrificing performance. To achieve an accurate view of storage utilization administrators must look beyond just storage allocation to actual storage consumption across all areas of the storage environment.

APTARE StorageConsole is an agentless Web 2.0 reporting and management solution that provides a 360 degree view of storage capacity from storage arrays, hosts, and applications. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager provides views of storage allocation and consumption across the storage environment that include:

• Storage allocated and consumed from the storage arrays
• Allocated and consumed storage of the hosts
• Consumed and allocated storage of mission-critical applications

Storage Array Utilization

Although storage administrators are able to easily track the amount of storage allocated to various departments from a storage array, viewing the actual amount of storage consumed is still a challenge. This leads companies into the false perception that they need to purchase additional storage when in reality, there is plenty of available unused "dark" storage. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager provides extensive reports on the storage array utilization:

• Storage Array capacity utilization maps the capacity of each storage array by raw capacity, raid group, and LUNs.
• LUN utilization summary provides in-depth capacity and mapping information for each LUN on a storage array including the size of the LUN and actual capacity used.
• Future forecasting of storage array capacity based on current and historical storage allocation. Allows you to identify future storage requirements from a storage array perspective.
• LUNs at risk shows the listing of LUNs that have exceeded an acceptable allocated storage threshold and are in danger of running out of storage. Proactively eliminate out-of-storage issues before they happen.

Host Capacity Utilization

APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager goes beyond the storage array and gives you detailed information on the storage hosts in your environment.. It's critical to know the amount of capacity allocated and consumed by each host to ensure that storage allocation is aligned with actual consumption at the host level.

Host capacity reporting available in APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager include:

• Host capacity provides detailed mapping of each allocated and used LUNs as well its volumes.
• Host utilization detail shows in-depth information about each host including Mount point file systems information, capacity used and available, and volume group details for the host.
• Host capacity forecasting uses the patented predictive analysis engine to forecast future storage requirements from each host based on current and historical usage
• View "hosts at risk" of running out of their allocated storage and creating a performance problem.

Application Centric Views

At the end of the day, it's all about the application. That's what people use. If the application goes down, everything comes down. It's difficult to get a true view of applications capacity because many of them do a "land grab", laying down their file system taking up all of the provisioned space. Although the provisioned space is 100% full, the true storage consumption by the application is far less. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager ensure your applications are utilizing the right amount of storage.

• Applications "at risk" provides data on each enterprise application and the amount of storage allocated, used, and identifies those that are reaching critical threshold levels of running out of storage.
• View over provisioned applications which details those applications that are using a very low percentage of allocated storage. This identifies "dark" storage that isn't fully being utilized by the application.
• Application storage dashboard provides an end-to-end mapping of an application's storage from the application, to the file system, and to the storage array. Provides drill-down on database applications to show database tables and actual files.

Chargebacks

All storage is not created equal, nor does are the costs the same .Different departments use different tiers of storage, and it's imperative that they be billed accordingly. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager provides the flexibility of creating various different chargeback reports depending upon the need. Any logical grouping can be created for chargeback purposes. (i.e. by department, geography, etc.)

• Chargeback by host maps all of the different storage tiers associated with each host as well as their user-defined cost and total cost.
• Storage tier chargeback provides reporting on all of the tiers of storage as well as the hosts, LUNs and total capacity associated with each tier.
• Chargeback by department provides costs of storage by department or any other logical grouping, e.g.geography.