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Storage Horizon Demonstration CenterStorage Capacity Management
(Duration: 10 minutes)
Storage Horizon helps storage teams increase the utilization of current and future storage assets, resulting in a reduction of storage capital spending. This demonstration will show you how to:
- Automate data collection and analysis for storage environment reporting
- Understand how you’re meeting corporate usage goals through high level and detailed views of your storage environment
- Calculate the storage costs of applications, business units, departments, etc.
- Determine when additional provisions or purchases are required
- Develop clear, accurate, and objective cost justification for future storage purchases
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(Duration: 5 minutes)
Storage Charge-Back reporting allows storage teams to determine where their storage assets are being committed. Storage Horizon helps automate the time consuming manual tasks of charge-back report generation. In this demonstration, see how to:
- Create host-based groups, representing applications, departments, data centers, etc.
- Understand current and project future usage
- Plan future storage allocations
- Generate charge-back reports
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(Duration: 5 minutes)
VMware provides increased challenges to storage teams to efficiently allocate storage. In this demonstration, see how Storage Horizon provides storage teams valuable storage insights for VMware environments, allowing storage teams to:
- Investigate ESX and VM storage and usage details
- Understand the relationship between storage, ESX servers, and VMs
- Plan efficient future storage allocations
- Analyze data for reporting and alarms
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(Duration: 5 minutes)
Databases typically are the largest single consumers for storage. Usually storage teams have little insight into the storage usage of databases. In this demonstration, see how Storage Horizon provides storage teams valuable storage insights for database environments, allowing storage teams to:
- Investigate database storage usage details
- Understand database to storage relationships
- Plan efficient future storage allocations
- Analyze data for reporting and alarms
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Larger array capacities allow storage teams to consolidate smaller arrays. If efficiently planned, this can result in reducing hardware costs, the energy required for power and cooling, and in data center floor space. In this demonstration, see how Storage Horizon provides storage teams valuable insights to allow more effective consolidation by:
- Identifying array consolidation candidates
- Determining storage requirements
- Pinpointing efficiency opportunities
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(Duration: 5 minutes)
Storage teams frequently get unplanned requests for storage with short deadlines. In this demonstration, see how Storage Horizon provides storage teams with analysis which helps locate unused storage fast:
- Ensure that additional storage is really required
- Identify available configured and unconfigured storage
- Reclaim dark and orphaned storage
- Reclaim over-provisioned storage
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