Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter Software
Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter software, powered by APTARE®, is an application for customers concerned about the growth and cost of their storage capacity that provides end-to-end storage capacity reporting from applications and hosts to heterogeneous storage systems to improve capacity planning, increase storage utilization and reduce infrastructure costs. It offers a host application view of storage usage for Oracle, Microsoft® SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange without the use of host based agents to help you identify under or over utilized storage capacity for better utilization and defer additional storage capacity investments.
Features
- Storage capacity utilization reporting and correlation leveraging the respective storage element managers, such as Hitachi Device Manager for Hitachi storage systems
- Host and application level storage reporting without the need for host based agents
- Identify overused storage resources to help ensure application availability and performance
- Identify unused or wasted capacity to be re-allocated for better utilization
- Heterogeneous storage system support to reduce both the resources and costs of managing a multivendor storage network
- Comprehensive storage capacity reporting both current and historical with built-in custom reporting capabilities
- Integrated backup reporting with Hitachi Backup Services Manager
Benefits
- Simplify Reporting of Storage Capacity
- Provides the required visibility to report on how your multivendor storage resources are being utilized
- Improve Application Availability
- Provides application centric views of storage capacity usage to help ensure your critical applications have the optimal storage capacity they require
- Maximize Storage Utilization and Reduce Costs
- Provides storage capacity usage views by host or storage system with predictive analysis to accurately forecast future storage needs
- Integrated and Flexible Reporting
- Provides common sharing of customized dashboards and reports that can be delivered in multiple formats and identically to mobile devices
