Storwize Capacity Advisor

Storage Resource Management for Your Capacity Optimized Infrastructure

Storwize Capacity Advisor is a comprehensive reporting and tracking solution that enables you to make intelligent capacity optimization decisions based upon powerful reporting of capacity utilization, data type distribution, file access patterns and trending information.

Capacity Advisor is the ideal complement to your Storwize STN-6000 series capacity optimization appliances providing a complete view of your entire storage infrastructure so you can monitor enterprise wide storage system resources, manage capacity optimization requirements, and resolve capacity shortages before they even occur. Administrators can drill-down to estimate savings and analyze data access patterns while IT management and CIOs can measure financial savings in storage, all with a single easy-to-use, visually rich graphical interface.

Eliminate Storage Shortfalls
Before they Occur

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Visualize

Color visualized reports enable you to visualize your current storage consumption by various file attributes including size, space, file type, and file age.

By gaining a detailed, graphical view of your current storage environment you can eliminate capacity shortfalls before they occur by pinpointing locations where storage is at capacity, or will be soon, and identify files, directories, and volumes to optimize creating additional capacity.

Quantify and Report on
Capacity Reduction

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Report

With Capacity Advisor, you can create detailed reports illustrating data reduction by site, department, share/directory, data-type, or storage device giving you a bird’s eye-view of data reduction results across your entire infrastructure.

Reporting on capacity by file access benefits tiered storage environments by enabling administrators to identify files for migration. Reporting on capacity benefits IT managers by enabling them to quantify savings and hold storage consumers accountable by assigning quotas or implementing storage chargeback processes, all of which helps you maximize the business value of your storage assets.

Simplify Your Capacity
Planning Process

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Predict

Capacity Advisor makes capacity planning simpler, more proactive, and efficient with reporting to track storage growth and trending. See how your capacity optimized storage resources are being used, graph historical and predicted data growth and apply this information to existing and future storage requirements and utilization.