Category Archives: Capacity Management

Anything related to Capacity Management and how Perfonics the tool can help.

EMCGrab Analysis As A Service…Why does it make sense?

EMCGrab Analysis As A Service…Why does it make sense? Does host remediation sound familiar? How about for 1000’s of hosts running on multi-petabyte storage? Many of you who are in the storage field and work on projects related to tech refresh, migration and consolidation projects or on performance issues related troubleshooting, will be well familiar… Read More »

What Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning Review can reveal about your Technology Investments?

Importance of Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning We live and work in a new era of extreme business speed, with heightened customer, partner, and employee expectations. To keep up, businesses demand more more innovation, speed, and flexibility from their data centers. Storage CapEx costs then becomes one of the largest investments in an Enterprise Class Data Center,… Read More »

Doing Performance Analysis with One Page Views – Part 3 of 3 – EMC CX3-CLARiiONs

Performance Analysis of EMC CX3 CLARiiONs Continuing the discussion on doing performance analysis with simple one page views, here is a sample of what can be done with an EMC CLARiiON model CX3-600/700. This copyright view is based on the performance data that is collected by EMC Control Center (ECC) with Performance Manager (WorkLoad Analyzer –… Read More »

Doing Performance Analysis with One Page Views – Part 2 of 3 – EMC Symmetrix DMX

Performance Analysis of EMC Symmetrix DMX Continuing the discussion on doing performance analysis with simple one page views, here is a sample of what can be done with an EMC Symmetrix DMX. This views is based on the performance data that is collected by EMC Control Center (ECC) with Performance Manager (WorkLoad Analyzer – WLA) tool.… Read More »

Doing Performance Analysis with One Page Views – Part 1 of 3 – Hitachi USP

Performance Analysis of Hitachi USP I am strong believer in bringing everything in life to a one page view. Whether it is logical view into a application or a architecture picture of a complex system. I use this philosophy into any performance work I do also. My favorites are a “Heat Chart” view of a storage… Read More »