GENERAL INFORMATION

Precise/SiteStor SRM provides the foundational discovery and ongoing analysis to monitor adherence to your corporate storage usage policy. Precise/SiteStor SRM discovers and analyzes storage resources on an interval basis and provides a consolidated view of your enterprise storage for use in the following functions: Server/Storage Consolidation, SAN/NAS/DAS Planning, Storage Consumption Analysis, Chargeback, and Data Migration and Availability.

OVERVIEW

Gain an Enterprise Perspective of your Storage Growth.

Correlate storage to your business priorities.

The fastest growing component of today's typical data center budget is storage-related. Now you can intelligently track this growth and optimize your storage resources to ensure adequate space for all of your mission-critical projects and applications to grow. This means high storage availability, maximized storage performance, and fundamental business continuity.

SiteStor provides the foundational discovery and ongoing analysis to monitor adherence to your corporate storage usage policy. SiteStor discovers and analyzes storage resources on an interval basis and provides a consolidated view of your enterprise storage for use in the following functions:

• Server/Storage Consolidation
• SAN/NAS/DAS Planning
• Storage Consumption Analysis
• Chargeback
• Data Migration and Availability

highlights

• Centralized enterprise-wide storage reporting
• Supports heterogeneous environments including Network Appliance Filers
• Collects storage metrics and saves the data in an MS-SQL or Oracle database
• Drill-down reporting
• Chargeback reporting by user, application, disk, server, domain
• Industry standard report generator
• Optional integration with Active Directory

 

Functional Overview

• SiteStor consists of data collection agents, a data server that communicates with a database and a user interface that presents the data to the user in the form of reports.
• Storage statistics are collected on an interval basis from agents residing on network servers. The collectors push the information to the data server. SiteStor provides an MMC inter-face that centrally manages these agents.
• The data server saves the statistical data in a central data repository, which is either a Microsoft SQL or Oracle database.
• Administrators view reports and analysis from a workstation, which is connected to the central database containing the storage usage information to be analyzed.

Precise/SiteStor SRM Architeture

Key Insights

With its 95 pre-configured reports, SiteStor answers the high level questions about your enterprise storage utilization:

• Who or what is consuming storage resources?
• By business unit, division, location, or workgroup
• By user
• By server or device
• By application/partition
• By managed directory
• How are storage resources being consumed?
• By file type
• By application
• By file system type
• By managed directory
• Which users consume the most space across the network?
• Which servers are nearest capacity?
• Which volumes are nearest capacity?
• When will storage capacity be exceeded?
• What is our enterprise storage capacity?
• By network
• By Active Directory node
• By user
• By server
• By application
• By managed directory
• How rapidly are applications growing?
• How rapidly is enterprise storage capacity expanding?
• And many more.

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Agents

• Windows XP Professional
• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a
• Solaris 8 64-bit UltraSPARC™ processors with the Solaris 64-bit Kernel
• Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2 Intel platform

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