Well it starts compiling instantaneously, I have had M&R running for about 2 weeks in our lab, I would think you would want a couple weeks of standard data to get a real good feeling for the trending. I have been running IOMeter against it to see how it reacts, etc. I think its a really nice tool actually. The trending is nice to look at. We do not have a huge change rate here in the lab but I can see in a production environment it would be really nice and you can just send a link to the report to anyone or get it in email and send it out. You can also export the data to CSV or save the graphs as images for each report, etc.
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jroczniak
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June 7th, 2013 04:00
Monitoring and Reporting does do some capacity forecasting. Here is a screenshot from our lab of one of the capacity planning reports...
AndMar2
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June 7th, 2013 04:00
Thanks,
how many days of data collection did it takes to compile that report?
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jroczniak
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June 7th, 2013 05:00
Well it starts compiling instantaneously, I have had M&R running for about 2 weeks in our lab, I would think you would want a couple weeks of standard data to get a real good feeling for the trending. I have been running IOMeter against it to see how it reacts, etc. I think its a really nice tool actually. The trending is nice to look at. We do not have a huge change rate here in the lab but I can see in a production environment it would be really nice and you can just send a link to the report to anyone or get it in email and send it out. You can also export the data to CSV or save the graphs as images for each report, etc.
Try the free 30 day trial, if you like it you can order it and apply the license to your existing install.
Rainer_EMC
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June 7th, 2013 14:00
I would suggest to just download M&R from support.emc.com and try it
It comes with an eval license and is installed in minutes