Storage Capacity Planning

Disk Capacity

Why can't I "notch" a disk to make it High-Capacity.

Bandwidth estimation for EMC MirrorView

I have a EMC clarion array at my primary site and one at my secondary site the distance is roughly 15 miles. I am using a product called Mirror ASync. which is a EMC array based replication tool. I have a RTO of 30 minutes. data rate of change is aprox. 50 GB per day how much bandwidth should I...

How do I use the current usage data to predict future growth?

I am taking up responsibility as a capacity planner. Currently, I have created automated reports that can tell me the exact usage of each tier and host for all our boxes. This data is obtained and stored every day. Can you share how I can use the data to analyse utilisation and predict the future...

Setting up a new 100GB storage system

I am new to storage systems, currently gathering information on setting up a storage systems. I know the concepts but am unable to relate how will a storage system be setup based on Allocation, zoning, masking and mapping. Please help.

storage assessment

Nowadays, storage capacity requirement is growing rapidly. However I don't think that the answer to this demand in storage capacity is to keep adding storage. Rather, a comprehensive storage assessment is required at a certain point in time. This will enable a better decision making in future...