Solutions > Utilization
 Given today’s prevailing trend toward overestimating capacity requirements and underutilizing storage resources, VPs of infrastructure are faced with the dual challenge of controlling capital expenditures while optimizing existing storage assets.
Challenges of Maintaining High Storage Asset Utilization
Organizations face three challenges to optimizing storage asset utilization:
- Identifying underutilized or orphaned storage assets. Most organizations do not have an automated way to view which assets are allocated to a business unit or application, or to view orphaned and underutilized assets.
- Reclaiming underutilized and orphaned assets without introducing application bottlenecks.
- Maintaining a high utilization storage environment post-optimization due to reliance on manual tools and element managers
Onaro’s Solution
Onaro's SANscreen product family empowers IT to more efficiently utilize storage assets by extending IT automation to storage. SANscreen :
- Identifies underutilized or orphaned storage resources
- Assists with reclaiming these resources safely, without introducing application bottlenecks
- Maintains optimal resource utilization levels over time
Benefits
Conservatively, Onaro estimates deferment of up to 20% of capital costs.
Products to Support Increased Utilization
Identification of underutilized or orphaned resources:
- Service Assurance automatically identifies orphaned storage based on configuration problems
Application Insight identifies orphaned hosts and storage based on traffic, and also identifies traffic distribution and utilization across the STORAGE by application
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Replication Assurance identifies orphaned BCVs.
Reclaimation of resources:
- Service Assurance provides a built-in and repeatable methodology for planning the necessary steps to reclaim underutilized or orphaned assets.
Maintaining optimal resource utilization levels:
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