Examples- Identifying and reducing storage waste using InfoScale Operations Manager
Primary storage is under increasing pressures in today's IT environment. Data is increasing in size with more complex applications and is stored longer to align to more stringent retention requirements. This data can include anything from spreadsheets from the chief financial officer (CFO), PowerPoints from the sales managers, and archive log files from Oracle databases.
This section introduces you to the following Storage Foundation High Availability features for reducing storage waste and gives examples of how you can use InfoScale Operations Manager for implementing these features.
Table: Features for reducing storage waste
| Feature | Possible uses |
|---|---|
| Thin reclamation | Reclaim unused storage space on thin LUNs. |
| Compression | Reclaim storage space by file system compression. |
| The following are good candidates for compression: | |
| - Database archive logs | |
| - Unstructured data | |
| Deduplication | Reclaim storage space by file system deduplication. |
| The following are good candidates for deduplication: | |
| - Virtual machine boot image files (vmdk files) | |
| - User home directories | |
| - File systems with multiple copies of files |
Each feature and the required steps using InfoScale Operations Manager are described under a separate use case.