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Storage Resource Management (SRM)
Storage Resource Management (SRM)
The size of the storage industry is getting greater and greater every day. With storage
requirements increasing between 50% and 100% annually, organizations are not only
faced with rising hardware costs but also with the increased cost of managing their
storage infrastructure. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), the cost of
storage management and administration is three times the cost of the initial hardware
acquisition. SRM today is not just limited to device and quota management. All aspects
of NAS and SAN management now come under the umbrella of SRM. The basic
responsibilities of SRM are as follows:
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Data Collection, Analysis and Trending Module
The Data Collection, Analysis and Trending Module lays the foundation of StorTrends
SRM. The design is centered on a kernel-level and an application-level component that
are glued into a very flexible and extensible framework. This makes it very easy to
extend SRM to cover a bigger and wider range of attributes without having to redesign it
from scratch. The key kernel component is the data collection agent that interfaces with
other modules to collect instantaneous data about all monitored resources. The other
component, which is an application layer module, is called the Data Container. This
layer provides an interface for storing collected data in a structure that spans time to
provide a context for trending data. Recent and instantaneous data, along with statistical
data, going back into months and years can be maintained.
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Discovery of Storage Nodes
Effective Storage provisioning and capacity management
File and Array level utilization
Performance monitoring and characterization
Backup and Recovery management
Workflow management
ILM
CSM
Intuitive Presentation and reporting mechanisms.
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