Storage Resource Management ILM Enabling Technologies
ILM Solutions Basic Building Blocks
Business policies and processes
Policy engine Global name space
Discovery and classification
Transparent data movement
Monitoring and Analysis
• No ILM solution provides all the pieces • Multi-vendor approaches can be difficult to integrate • The most important block—business planning
There is no such thing as a true ILM solution but there are a lot of ILM enabling technologies.
ILM is made up of a few basic technology building blocks: Monitoring and analysis:
Usage management tools provide key information about how applications are using storage Tools that do monitoring and analysis to track our data and see who is using what, how often they are using it. Is there data on my network that is never being accessed that could perhaps be archived? Or is there data on our low performance storage that is being accessed every 5 minutes so should be moved to a higher tier.