Discovery of new storage arrays, physical disks, and virtual disks

Backup Exec can discover new storage arrays, physical disks, and the virtual disks that you add to a storage array. If you create virtual disks by using storage array vendor tools or the Microsoft Storage Manager for SANs utility, Backup Exec also detects those virtual disks.

A wizard to help you configure a storage array for use with Backup Exec

Backup Exec provides the Configure Storage Wizard to help you configure virtual disks on a storage array. The virtual disks are added to the Any virtual disk storage device pool. Backup Exec then uses the virtual disks in the device pool as destination devices for jobs.

Trend analysis of disk space usage

Backup Exec collects statistical information to predict the amount of disk space that is required on the storage arrays. Alerts are sent if the available disk space does not meet the predicted amount of disk space that is needed.

See About storage trending for disk storage and virtual disks.

Alerts for low disk space

Backup Exec sends an alert when available disk space reaches each of three thresholds that you set for a virtual disk.