Dynamic Storage Tiering Analyzer – New tool to quantify the benefits of DST in your environment

Have you heard of Storage Foundation's Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) feature, but are not sure of the benefits it can provide you? Install the free, easy-to-use DST Analyzer tool in your environment as you evaluate if Dynamic Storage Tiering is right for you, and to answer questions about cost savings that would result from file system consolidation.

The DST Analyzer operates in two stages:

• In the first stage, it collects ownership, file size, and age information from any UNIX file system — Veritas Storage Foundation doesn’t have to be present at all.
• In the second stage, the Analyzer examines the data against user- specified storage costs and placement policies to determine the storage utilization and cost under different DST policy scenarios. Data from multiple file systems can be combined to answer questions about cost savings that would result from file system consolidation.

Try out this small, easy-to-use tool in your environment as you evaluate if DST is right for you.

To see how the tool is installed and used within your environment, watch Murthy Mamidi, Symantec Technical Director, as he walks through a screencast demo that shows how how to set up and use the free Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) Analyzer tool .