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Common Capacity Management Challenges

Capacity management challenges include:
• Determining existing storage capacity and usage trends across the organization
• Determining whether usage effectively supports organizational goals
• Defining and implementing storage policies
• Adjusting the policies as capacity needs grow, and as organizational needs change
Common Storage Management Challenges
Storage management challenges include:
• Many organizations experience a growth in storage requirements from 60 to 100 percent per year
• Mission-critical data must be available continuously
• Organizations must comply with the latest regulatory requirements
• The number of storage-intensive applications on the market has increased

Addressing Capacity and Storage Management Challenges

Consider the following to help address capacity and storage management challenges:
• Analyze how storage is being used
• Define storage resource management policies
• Implement policies to attempt to slow storage growth
• Acquire tools to implement policies

FSRM Functions

Using FSRM, you can perform the following tasks:
• Create quotas to limit the space allowed for a volume or folder
• Have quotas automatically generated
• Create file screens
• Monitor attempts to save unauthorized files
• Define quota and file screening templates
• Generate scheduled or on-demand storage reports
FSRM Configuration Options
FSRM configuration options include:
• Configuring e-mail notifications
• Configuring the default parameters for
storage reports
• Changing report repository locations
• Configuring file screen audit
What Is Quota Management?
Notification thresholds can be configured to:
• Send e-mail notifications
• Log an event
• Run a command or script
• Generate storage reports
Limiting storage space via a hard or soft quota and generating notifications when the limits are approached or exceeded
What Are Quota Templates?
A quota template defines:
• A space limit
• The type of quota (hard or soft quota)
• A set of notifications to be generated when the quota limit is approached
A number of default Quota Templates are provided in the
Quota Management node of FSRM
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