EMC VisualSRM SMB

A storage resource management software helps you stay ahead of data growth and rein in costs while meeting your storage needs.
EMC VisualSRM SMB Edition storage management software enables small and medium businesses to stay ahead of data growth and rein in costs while meeting their business needs. It provides a central location for monitoring storage usage and setting automated management policies to ensure that storage is being used optimally and is always available for critical servers. It provides a clear picture of storage consumption by computers, applications, and users. Create policies to control storage usage. When a storage limit is reached, EMC VisualSRM SMB Edition sends notification or automatically deletes, moves, or compresses files to free storage.

• Understand how storage is being utilized
• Control storage consumption, eliminate redundancy, and reclaim wasted space
• Ensure critical servers always have sufficient storage capacity.

EMC VisualSRM SMB - Features

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 companys storage and enables you to create automated policies to manage it.

VisualSRM SMB Edition provides a clear picture of how storage is being used by computers, applications, and users.

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 whereby 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 Editions 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.

EMC VisualSRM SMB - System Requirements

System Requirements

VisualSRM and backend database running on the same server

• 1 GHz or faster CPU (Pentium III or higher); two CPUs recommended
• 2 GB or greater RAM;
• 50 GB or greater free space;
  • Server Operating System:
  • Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition with SP4
  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4
  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with SP1.

VisualSRM backend database suppor

• SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (bundled).

VisualSRM agents

• 450 MHz or faster Pentium II CPU (750 MHz recommended)
• 256 MB or greater RAM (512 MB recommended)
• 4 GB or greater free space (for scanning up to 2 TB)
• 10 GB or greater free space (for scanning up to 5 TB)
  • Supported operating systems
  • Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition with SP4
  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4
  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with SP1
  • Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 Windows XP Professional with SP2.
• Microsoft Cluster support
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with SP4
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1.

Web Browser

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.