Features
SRA is designed to fully automate the processes around storage analytics for the heterogeneous storage estate. With its light-touch agentless architecture SRA can rapidly analyse the most complex storage environments and instantly provide you with complete transparency. Our typical customer has at least 100TB of storage, two or more data centres and utilises technology from multiple vendors.
SRA will help you to immediately answer questions such as:
- How much storage do I have, how is it configured and what's allocated?
- What are my system, RAID and protection overheads?
- Where and what headroom is available?
- What tiers of storage are in use - is all of my data on expensive tier 1 storage?
- Do I have any orphaned storage assets that can be reclaimed?
- What configuration errors exist and what's at risk?
- Where is thin provisioning being used, how is it configured and being utilised?
If you struggle to manage your infrastructure and are literally 'flying blind' then SRA can quickly get you back in control of your storage assets.
BENEFITS
- Rapid time to value, analytics can be accessed within hours not days.
- Supports projects such as cloud migration, data centre consolidation, vendor rationalisation, technology swaps and refreshes and asset tracking.
- Saves time - no more countless hours using Excel or in-house developed applications to create storage management reports.
- Easily identify what tier your data is running on; is everything flying first class?
- Discovers orphaned storage allowing you to reclaim storage; immediate ROI.
- Supports ITIL capacity planning processes and the delivery of IT Services.
- Gives you complete confidence when presenting to management.
- Provides proven data that supports purchasing decisions.
- Discovers configuration errors highlighting potential sleeping catastrophes.
- Enables you to implement internal chargeback processes; no more infinite supply and demand of storage.
- Demystify storage virtualization from logical LUN to physical disk.
- Understand thin provisioning configuration and associated risks.
FEATURES
- Single pane of glass for the entire storage environment.
- Cross-vendor heterogeneous support.
- Immediate visibility of capacity, allocation headroom and RAID overhead across region, data centre and array.
- Explicit savings - instant reclaimable storage.
- Implicit savings - from in-depth analysis.
- Configuration exception reporting to focus initial efforts.
- Point-in-time snapshot of the storage estate.
- Trending reports to highlight and understand growth.
- Standard performance tiering model for disks and configured LUNs.
- Perform multiple data collections to enable trending allowing you to understand how the storage estate is changing over time.
