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Helps You Plan for Storage Growth
If you are paying attention to your network storage management processes, you are undoubtedly working hard to maintain enough free capacity to handle your expected growth. Usually this is done by buying large, expensive storage devices with enough disk space to accommodate growth for an estimated amount of time.
But Novell File Reporter offers you a better and more accurate way of planning for storage growth.
Novell File Reporter generates reports that tell you what you can consider moving or deleting from your primary storage. It can also generate Trend Data reports that display volume storage trending. Using this information, you can compare growth trends for a volume between two points in time. The data includes number of files, overall file size, available free space, and more.
Using this data, you can determine the growth rate on a volume, project when you will be near capacity, and budget for more storage in advance.
Trend Data can also compare the growth rate of one volume with other volumes. You can use this to investigate unusual growth trends. For example, if the available disk space has diminished dramatically over a short period of time, you might want to run an Owner Report to see who is storing the most files.
The Comparison Report lets you compare the total number of files on a volume between two points in time. In our example, if the Owner Report shows that there are high number of non-work-related files, you can remove them and then run a Comparison Report to view the change in available disk space after the files have been removed.
