Monday, 9 February 2015

Key Metrics for Effective Storage Performance and Capacity Reporting (1 of 10)

This blog series will cover the key metrics in storage that you can use to get a handle on your storage capacity.


       Storage Architecture – basic concepts


       Two distinct aspects of storage capacity


       Virtualization


       Key metrics from the host and backend storage view


       Reporting on what is most important


A good place to start is with the history of storage architecture.


Storage has increased in complexity, as shown in the diagram below from left to right




Large environments have gone from megabytes to petabytes in terms of Storage and this growth can result in an increase in cost and complexity. 

On Wednesday I’ll look at the 2 distinct aspects of storage capacity........in the meantime feel free to browse our white papers and join our community http://www.metron-athene.com/_downloads/published-papers/index.html

Dale Feiste
Principal Consultant

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