Policy-based Windows storage management

VisualSRM SMB Edition

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EMC VisualSRM SMB Edition storage resource management software helps you stay ahead of data growth and rein in costs while meeting your storage needs. VisualSRM SMB Edition is a policy-based Windows storage management application that presents a consolidated view of your company's storage and enables you to create automated policies to manage it.

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Features

Understand how storage is being utilized
VisualSRM SMB Edition provides a clear picture of how storage is being used by computers, applications, and users. Visually clear tools, automatic alerts, and built-in reports enable you to easily assess your storage environment and make informed decisions to meet current and future storage needs. The intuitive browser-based console can be customized to display the information that interests you most. You can quickly gain insight into what data is being stored and where - by type, by user, and by rate of consumption. Capture and display storage information for Windows application and file servers, as well as desktops and notebooks. VisualSRM SMB Edition offers a wide variety of built-in, file-level reports that enable you to readily understand how internal and external disk storage is being consumed. Information is displayed in summary fashion or in detail using extensive drill-down capabilities. If more or less information is desired, use VisualSRM SMB Edition's customization to display precisely what you need.
VisualSRM SMB Edition reports can display and report on the following information:

• Storage used by systems, disks, folders, and network shares
• Storage used by owner or group
• Storage used by file type such as Microsoft Office files or cached Internet files
• Files created, accessed, or modified before, on, or after a given date
• Files, folders, and volumes based on size
• Duplicate files that are wasting disk space
• Historical data on use and growth over a user-specified time to help you analyze trends and plan future storage requirements

Create automated storage management policies
After you view and analyze your storage usage, use VisualSRM SMB Edition to automatically manage it on an ongoing basis to control storage consumption, eliminate redundancy, reclaim wasted space, and ensure 24x7 application servers always have sufficient storage capacity. You determine how VisualSRM SMB Edition will function by creating intelligent actions, which carry out your storage management policies automatically. For example, you can create an intelligent action to compress files and keep them for a length of time you determine, or you can define an action that automatically deletes temporary files that have not been accessed after a specified number of days. To ensure critical servers always have enough storage to perform optimally, an intelligent action can be triggered to run when disk usage hits a critical threshold. Files can be compressed, moved, or deleted to free necessary disk space.
Create intelligent actions to:

• Run and distribute a wide variety of predefined or custom reports
• Identify and eliminate non-business information
• Run administrative scripts
• Compress, delete, or move files
• Issue warnings to users
• Send notifications of important operating system events
• Set limits for the length of time unused files are stored
• Eliminate unwanted duplicate files
• Free disk space for critical servers approaching capacity limits

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