Hello and welcome to this brief overview of E MC data protection advisor version six in association with the E MC data protection suite in the world of E MC Data protection suite, which includes the unparalleled mainstream protection technologies of E MC AAR Networker and data protection advisor.
DP A integrates through a single console of consoles, visibility of the whole data protection estate. It provides four budgetary control through charge back reporting, resource management through utilization reporting, planning and anticipation through trend analysis.
And indeed, it will reinforce the trust in it to a near real time functional reporting capability using a myriad of reports and tools such as root cause analysis. Let's now take a brief look at just how DP A adds value to the E MC data protection suite.
So from our dashboard, let's first of all consider that under our policies, the bedrock of the reporting data collection charge back all of the other functionality underpinning DP A is policy driven and each of these policies may be defined and redefined throughout the life of the DP A server.
Let's now go into our reports and I run reports and we'll look at chargeback selecting a as our environment. This is our scope. We'll now select our report template and we'll select charge back to report upon selecting our chargeback details by client and an appropriate time period.
We'll select the last month and we can see a summary of the chargeback details for our Ava mouse service. And here we can see our backup costs per client and indeed, our restore costs were appropriate over the period in question. So we have seen using the three simple constructs of the scope, the template and the time period we can generate reports on just about anything.
And in this section, we'll look at utilization tracking and trending under capacity planning. This time, we'll select as our scope E MC networker and we look at our Thames server. Let's select our report template and this time selecting capacity planning, we'll look at media and we'll select our media account.
Let's select as our time period the last two weeks. And here we can see a simple representation of the utilization of our media on the te server over that period, not very stimulating just a single line showing the immediate count that up around the 2 65 2 70 mark, we can see a very slight upward trend over that two week period.
Keeping our scope the same. Let's select another template at this time, we'll select a usage template and we'll select our media usage by pool. And rather than just selecting a historical time period. We'll select a custom time period and extrapolate our line chart six months into the future and run in a new tab.
Here, we can see on the left hand side, our historical information and we can see that our pools have now been extrapolated to the end of the new custom time period. In doing so, we can accurately project on the current trend utilization of the media in each of the pools identified.
We may further extend the functionality of these graphs by implementing through our policies defined values which if exceeded will generate an appropriate alert. So how may we gain trust in our systems? We can gain trust by gaining knowledge. DP A will provide us with a window on all of the knowledge that we need about the status activity and indeed problems encountered within our data protection systems.
So let's now take a brief look at how we may perform root cause analysis. Using again just the simple steps we've seen previously with a scope, a template and a time period. So let's select as our scope E MC networker. We'll select a report template called failed jobs and our time period.
Let's just select the last day. We see our failed jobs over the last day. Let's take one of these and right click, we will see find roots calls and we see that our potential root cause is specified that there are no empty volumes left in the pool And so to conclude this brief overview of the E MC data protection suite including AAR and Networker as viewed from E MC Data protection Advisors, Unifying portal DP A provides all your essential tools necessary for reporting, tracking and trending resource management. Charge back utilization and root cause analysis.
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