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 with Storage Capacity Management
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 capacity management and 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 shows 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, current and future host storage usage
- View historical, current and future array capacity growth
- 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.
