1. StorNext® Health Check
Maintaining Optimal Performance
As the complexity of your storage ecosystem grows you want assurance that your StorNext solution maintains optimal efficiency. Quantum’s StorageCare Professional Services team is highly skilled at scrutinizing changes in your storage ecosystem that can effect performance such as a change in capacity, average file size or ingest volume.
With any high performance system, it’s critical to periodically analyze functions that can influence efficiency to ensure optimal operation. For many customers, an annual Health Check can mean the difference between meeting SLA's by leveraging existing investments or investing more to keep pace with the demands put on their systems. Quantum’s Professional Services team will review specific logs, reports and metrics to determine if your StorNext environment is operating optimally and suggest changes to meet your ever changing workflow and data structure
Activities: Work performed by StorageCare Professional Services
Review open service tickets for the environment
Capture logs from StorNext Metadata Controllers
Evaluate logs for the targeted StorNext file systems
Analyze StorNext logs for errors and signatures of known StorNext Product Alerts and Bulletins
Check for excessive file and free space fragmentation
Evaluate the StorNext log sizes and information on the StorNext log rolling script if needed
Run the StorNext Health Check function from the GUI and evaluate the results
Suggest third party logs that may need to be reviewed by third party vendors
Run a manual backup to capture all current configurations, database entries, etc.
Review and suggest backup strategies
Verify that backups are running properly
Test failover function is working properly
Test client connectivity after a failover and fail back
Generate post engagement reports
Benefits of a Regular Health Check
Data structure and ingest rate analysis
File System configuration evaluation
Incident review
Potential bottleneck identification
Optimization and performance improvement recommendations
Other StorageCare Professional Services Offerings
StorNext File System and Storage Manager Assessment
Review StorNext physical eco-system
Evaluate current policies to ensure appropriateness relative to current business requirements
Analyze work flows
Performance Tuning
Implement changes recommended during Health Check and Assessment
Recommendations on work flows and 3rd party applications