Thanks for your response all. We have a SMS managed environment having data over 3000TB of disk storage which makes it very complex.
SAS+MXG and SAS+MICS ISFM CA Vantage I am now making analysis using the Vantage reports. I shall take the suggestions made and hopefully get good results of it. Thanks, Rahul On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > In our ever expanding Storage needs...my management has tasked me to > review the > > storage we are using and targeted a reduction of 10-15% of it by doing > necessary > > cleanup. Can someone suggest the best practices i could follow to achieve > this. > > > > Thanks, > > Rahul > > What products do you currently have to do the analysis. Some products > might > be > > Do you have HSM managing your environment or are you NON SMS? > > SAS+MXG or SAS+MICS > zOSEM HSM component > ISFM > Naviquest > CA Vantage > CA Disk or CA Allocate > > > As well as many others > > You need to look at the following areas > 1) How much storage total > 2) How much storage are you adding yearly? > 3) How many datasets? > a) What is on primary dasd (L0) > b) What is migrated (either dasd ML1 or tape ML2) > 4) What are your policies for retaining the data? > How long are files allowed to be kept. > Do you have SLAs or Regulation requirements for file retention? > What is your Diaster Recovery Requirements vs Business Continuity > Requirements. > > > These basic questions will help form your requirements for Dasd cleanup. > > When we did a clean up we found that the application groups were using > invalid retention on their files so they would not go away. Or never get > migrated. > > You need to work with your organizational groups to provide a clear policy > on retention and then enforce them > > Lizette > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
