NetApp SANscreen Capacity Manager

Make smart capacity purchase decisions with global visibility into storage resource allocation and simplify the provisioning process.

Plan Your Capacity Purchases

Make better capacity management decisions regarding what, when, and where to purchase capacity. Capacity Manager enables you to improve timely purchasing decisions by providing global visibility into storage resource allocation trends, capacity consumption trends, forecast consumption trends, and chargeback visibility.

In conjunction with the SANscreen storage data warehouse, Capacity Manager aggregates relevant storage and switch information to facilitate capacity-related reports such as chargeback, consumption analysis, and forecasting. To handle the dynamic state of the storage environment, as well as ever-changing business requirements, Capacity Manager provides a flexible report authoring solution that enables custom reports to support capacity planning and purchasing.

Capacity Manager’s reservation and forecasting processes help you establish a clear demand pipeline so you can plan and justify capacity purchasing decisions-and reduce capital expenditures by decreasing the required safety capacity.

Additionally, you can reduce capital expenditures by extending the tiering definition beyond the classic “tier by vendor/model” to further optimize existing resources and better match application and tiers of service.

Capacity Manager’s discovery and data collection are automated, global, and agentless.

Provision Capacity Effectively

Accelerate application provisioning with near real-time information on available service tiers, enabling a repeatable, streamlined process that causes fewer mistakes, reservation collisions, and the need for rework.

With this simpler, repeatable, and structured provisioning process you can reduce the risk of latent quality issues or outages caused by incorrect or incomplete provisioning and achieve provisioning goals.

Accurately Charge Back for Services

Run your IT organization like a business by accurately charging for the storage services you deliver. With SANscreen® Capacity Manager, you can audit the resource allocations to each business unit-transparently, efficiently, and accurately.

Generate chargeback reports based on the consumption of tiered services and rely on a historical audit to see exactly what was allocated.

Eliminate the time and cost needed to manually gather data and compose chargeback reports with Capacity Manager’s automated discovery of allocation mapping between business units, applications, and resources.