Storage tips: How to achieve full capacity management

In the IT field, capacity management can be interpreted in many different ways, depending on the area and focus of your attention. Full capacity management centralizes the capacity management projects that are most heavily applied in the data center, respectively, for storage virtualization and backup. Overall, capacity management is the most suitable for both.

In a broad sense, total capacity management is to ensure that all resources in the data center are effectively utilized at the security level. Resource utilization is low and the budget waste rate is high. Too much utilization in the scenario may put the company at risk for the digital component, which could cause the company to lose its customers while losing profits.

In a server environment, tools that can improve resource utilization are typically virtualization products, mainly from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. Tools for increasing resource utilization in storage and backup are typically new storage systems that can provide automatic thin configuration, tiered data, or can provide optimized products for performance compression, data deduplication, or archiving.

It is important to note that all of these tools are simply capable of providing a simple resource utilization and, when demanding more complex capabilities, must be complemented by a set of capacity planning tools to ensure a balanced utilization level.

The capacity planning tools provided by Tek-tools companies allow a complete and independent interface for storage, server virtualization, and backup platforms. The links between these three platforms are so tight that it is important to manage them from a single console.

Capacity planning is mostly used in storage, backup, or virtual server environments, requiring dynamic monitoring, real-time management and trend processor and storage requirements, so that all resources can be used with maximum efficiency. Capacity planning provides an accurate forecast when a company is about to be in a resource-constrained situation, so the appropriate additional computational energy or storage capacity can be added to the environment.

The timing of this trend information is critical for any successful approach to reducing it costs. For servers and storage, it is particularly important to delay purchases as long as possible. As we all know, after each quarter, you can generally buy more capacity and better performance equipment at a lower price.

Most storage, virtual servers, and backup technologies now allow the load to flow in real time to meet the performance requirements that are more appropriate for the server host or storage tier.

By providing a comprehensive perspective, the comprehensive management planning tool allows IT staff to identify underutilized and virtual host capacity, reallocate workloads, and make a new load or increase a particular load better balanced without additional purchases.

For example, through a comprehensive capacity planning tool, IT administrators can analyze the application of company flash memory. The standard for snapshots may be to save for seven days, but this may consume a large amount of disk space in the snapshot's storage area. Shortening the time to keep snapshots can significantly reduce disk capacity usage. While this does not provide a wide range of rollback time in time, at least today's enterprises can make decisions on the basis of quality, information, and allow them to balance production and non production storage.

It is also uncommon for these tools to identify the amount of disk capacity that is consumed through hyper-protection. When a virtual host creates a snapshot, the storage hardware may have another snapshot, and the DBA may also make several copies on the primary storage database. It is not possible to maintain all these additional copies of the data, to remove a portion of it or at least move them to level two storage to free up large amounts of primary storage.

By backing up the platform, the company is concerned with the continuing cost of disk media and the cost of tapes that are required for storage. In addition, disk backup administrators have been concerned about another storage area since their inception. Finally, backup monitoring confirms their environment for protection, especially the virtual server environment. The ability to effectively handle all the backup capacity challenges and figure out how they affect storage, virtualized platforms, and is also a critical deliverable for full capacity management.

Without these tools, the default response is to buy more restricted resources. The consequence is that additional hardware needs to be purchased, in many cases including servers and storage, as well as the impact on IT staff. Because they have to implement a new solution for potential downtime and migrate resources to plan.

In addition to balancing resources, capacity planning tools allow for a balance of available storage or process capabilities. This is especially a challenge when planning storage capabilities. Because it takes a lot of time in the first area and runs out of all the disk space, it takes the same amount of time to maximize storage performance to ensure that the workload adapts to the technical performance it requires. It allows some storage volumes to be degraded to higher-capacity, lower-power systems, and even allow some volumes to be upgraded to higher performance systems.

The utilization of processor resources is also the same. Real-time monitoring of all of these server load, data acquisition, can allow the administrator to determine a specific application. These applications can benefit from a virtual host implementation that moves to a faster or less restricted resource.

Even the backup process has performance requirements. Use the full capacity management tool to see if you need to rebalance on different disk backup targets or different tape target selections. In addition, it allows you to predict when an additional disk or tape backup is required from a performance perspective.

Finally, comprehensive capacity management tools can help storage, server, and backup consolidation. Some of these tools can capture real-time information about servers and stored data that are not being consolidated. These servers can rank by their virtualization capabilities and even by simulating the load impact on the target host. These can be implemented in the actual migration process so that the impact can be minimized.

Overall capacity management should be the first step, regardless of your efforts to optimize servers, storage, and backup resources. Full capacity management tools can help you maximize your environment without optimizing IT staff.