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Storage Resource Management
OK, so the bosses are now thinking it would be a great service to go into
client sites and do a storage analysis for clients. I'm thinking I could go in with a 1U server with a QFE and perhaps a FC card, plug it into the network, point it at the servers with storage, come back the next day/week, and give them an analysis of their storage use. Key information I would be looking for includes duplicate and infrequently accessed data. Nice to have features include plugins for Exchange, Oracle, MS SQL, and Netapp, along with published database schema so I can write my own queries. Ease of installation and removal of the agents, cross-platform support, and low agent overhead is critical. I don't want this thing screwing up the clients' environments. Also, I have a question on how these tools generally gather their information. How closely do the agents rely on the underlying filesystem? For example, if someone has turned on noatime for a UFS filesystem, does that mean that I can't collect access time information, or do agents put something in between the filesystem and OS to collect and report inode access and operations? If anyone has any information, reports, white papers, etc. comparing the different offerings out there, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, --paul |
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CreekPath's monitoring piece is very good, seen it in action myself.
I hear Storability has a good one as well. Saw their demo and the monitoring aspect was good but they didn't have the provisioning I needed so they were out of the running early. Either of these will delve down into the tablespaces of db's, don't know about Exchange though. I believe both have NetApp agents now as well. These 2 products rely on the filesystem, which is good in that there's no inserting of wild monkey drivers but you're proposed scenario would suffer. I would go CreekPath, my $.02. ~F On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:52:10 -0500, "Paul" pgaljan_delete_between the wrote: OK, so the bosses are now thinking it would be a great service to go into client sites and do a storage analysis for clients. I'm thinking I could go in with a 1U server with a QFE and perhaps a FC card, plug it into the network, point it at the servers with storage, come back the next day/week, and give them an analysis of their storage use. Key information I would be looking for includes duplicate and infrequently accessed data. Nice to have features include plugins for Exchange, Oracle, MS SQL, and Netapp, along with published database schema so I can write my own queries. Ease of installation and removal of the agents, cross-platform support, and low agent overhead is critical. I don't want this thing screwing up the clients' environments. Also, I have a question on how these tools generally gather their information. How closely do the agents rely on the underlying filesystem? For example, if someone has turned on noatime for a UFS filesystem, does that mean that I can't collect access time information, or do agents put something in between the filesystem and OS to collect and report inode access and operations? If anyone has any information, reports, white papers, etc. comparing the different offerings out there, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, --paul |
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check out BrightStor Storage Resource Manager. It would fit the bill based
on your requirements; and could be easily managed from a central environment. -mrl "Faeandar" wrote in message ... CreekPath's monitoring piece is very good, seen it in action myself. I hear Storability has a good one as well. Saw their demo and the monitoring aspect was good but they didn't have the provisioning I needed so they were out of the running early. Either of these will delve down into the tablespaces of db's, don't know about Exchange though. I believe both have NetApp agents now as well. These 2 products rely on the filesystem, which is good in that there's no inserting of wild monkey drivers but you're proposed scenario would suffer. I would go CreekPath, my $.02. ~F On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:52:10 -0500, "Paul" pgaljan_delete_between the wrote: OK, so the bosses are now thinking it would be a great service to go into client sites and do a storage analysis for clients. I'm thinking I could go in with a 1U server with a QFE and perhaps a FC card, plug it into the network, point it at the servers with storage, come back the next day/week, and give them an analysis of their storage use. Key information I would be looking for includes duplicate and infrequently accessed data. Nice to have features include plugins for Exchange, Oracle, MS SQL, and Netapp, along with published database schema so I can write my own queries. Ease of installation and removal of the agents, cross-platform support, and low agent overhead is critical. I don't want this thing screwing up the clients' environments. Also, I have a question on how these tools generally gather their information. How closely do the agents rely on the underlying filesystem? For example, if someone has turned on noatime for a UFS filesystem, does that mean that I can't collect access time information, or do agents put something in between the filesystem and OS to collect and report inode access and operations? If anyone has any information, reports, white papers, etc. comparing the different offerings out there, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, --paul |
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