System and method for storage management
First Claim
1. A system for management of a storage estate of an organization, comprising:
- a storage management data repository configured to receive periodic updates from one or more servers or applications coupled to the storage estate; and
a web reporting tool configured to periodically process data from the storage management data repository, the web reporting tool configured to provide one or more reports related to the storage estate in a format accessible through a web interface provided to authorized users, the one or more reports including a key performance indicator (KPI) report,wherein the KPI report comprises one of a SAN KPI report and a NAS KPI report,wherein the SAN KPI report comprises a display of one or more SAN KPIs related to storage area network (SAN) data of the organization,wherein the NAS KPI report comprises a display of one or more NAS KPIs related to network attached storage (NAS),wherein at least one SAN KPI comprises one or more of;
protection efficiency calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, andapplication efficiency calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices,wherein at least one NAS KPI comprises snapshot overhead calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage.
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring the storage estate of an organization using an interactive website that is configured to produce and display a novel set of key performance indicators (KPIs) related to the storage estate, including KPIs related to data collected from at least one of storage area network data and network attached storage data. In one embodiment, the novel set of KPIs includes one or more of protection efficiency, application efficiency, and snapshot overhead, where protection efficiency is calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, application efficiency is calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices for storage area network data, and snapshot overhead is calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage for network attached storage data.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for management of a storage estate of an organization, comprising:
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a storage management data repository configured to receive periodic updates from one or more servers or applications coupled to the storage estate; and a web reporting tool configured to periodically process data from the storage management data repository, the web reporting tool configured to provide one or more reports related to the storage estate in a format accessible through a web interface provided to authorized users, the one or more reports including a key performance indicator (KPI) report, wherein the KPI report comprises one of a SAN KPI report and a NAS KPI report, wherein the SAN KPI report comprises a display of one or more SAN KPIs related to storage area network (SAN) data of the organization, wherein the NAS KPI report comprises a display of one or more NAS KPIs related to network attached storage (NAS), wherein at least one SAN KPI comprises one or more of; protection efficiency calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, and application efficiency calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices, wherein at least one NAS KPI comprises snapshot overhead calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for managing a storage estate of an organization, comprising:
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regularly retrieving information related to the storage estate at one or more servers; forwarding periodically the retrieved information from the one or more servers on to a data repository; processing the periodically forwarded data in the data repository on a regular basis to provide processed information related to categories of the storage estate; and providing one or more reports related to the storage estate in a format accessible through a web interface provided to authorized users, the one or more reports including a key performance indicator (KPI) report, wherein the KPI report comprises one of a SAN KPI report and a NAS KPI report, wherein the SAN KPI report comprises a display of one or more KPIs related to storage area network (SAN) data of the organization, wherein the NAS KPI report comprises a display of one or more KPIs related to network attached storage (NAS), wherein at least one SAN KPI comprises one or more of; protection efficiency calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, and application efficiency calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices, wherein at least one NAS KPI comprises snapshot overhead calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for managing a storage estate of an organization, comprising:
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retrieving periodically a first set of information related to the storage estate at one or more servers; processing the periodically retrieved information to depict a storage volume associated with each of a plurality of categories of the storage estate; and identifying to a user a set of storage estate components for attention by providing at a web interface a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) related to the categories of the storage estate, wherein the set of KPIs comprises a display of one or more KPIs related to one of a set of storage area network (SAN) KPIs and a set of network attached storage (NAS) KPIs, wherein the set of SAN KPIs comprises a display of one or more KPIs related to SAN data of the organization, wherein the set of NAS KPIs comprises a display of one or more KPIs related to NAS data, wherein at least one SAN KPI comprises one or more of; protection efficiency calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, and application efficiency calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices, wherein at least one NAS KPI comprises snapshot overhead calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for managing a storage estate of an organization, comprising:
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collecting historical performance data of the storage estate based at least in part on a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) related to storage data of the organization, wherein the set of KPIs comprises a display of one or more KPIs related to one of a set of storage area network (SAN) KPIs and a set of network attached storage (NAS) KPIs, wherein the set of SAN KPIs comprises a display of one or more SAN KPIs, wherein the set of NAS KPIs comprises a display of one or more NAS KPIs, wherein at least one SAN KPI comprises one or more of; protection efficiency calculated as a ratio of logical addressable data storage volume to total physical volume of data storage for storage area network data of the organization, and application efficiency calculated as a fraction of disk storage allocated to end user devices that is actually used by the end user devices, wherein at least one NAS KPI comprises snapshot overhead calculated as a ratio of a volume of storage allocated for replicated copies of data to allocated storage. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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