Solutions
IntelliMagic Balance addresses some of storage managements most difficult challenges as shown in the table below:
| Challenge | Solution |
| How do I address immediate storage performance issues? | IntelliMagic Balance provides a plan that significantly reduces back-end peaks, improving your performance capacity. |
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How do I extend the useful life of expensive storage hardware? |
IntelliMagic Balance enables more efficient use of hardware resulting in fewer performance issues, a longer useful life for your hardware, and reduced storage hardware costs. |
| How do I plan data migrations to new storage hardware without introducing new performance risks | IntelliMagic Balance creates migration plans that show exactly where to place the volumes in order to reduce performance risks. |
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How do I identify the least expensive tier that meets the performance requirements? |
Using a mixture of faster disks and slower disks can be significantly less expensive than using a single tier configuration. IntelliMagic Balance placement plans can be created for tiered or single-tier storage environments including Solid State Drives, Fibre drives and SATA. |
| I need to migrate to larger volumes but I am concerned about optimizing volume placement. |
IntelliMagic Balance creates optimal mapping for consolidating small logical volumes to larger volumes |
| I want to create a migration plan that maps my logical devices to physical RAID groups and balances the workload but I don't have time. | IntelliMagic Balance creates a volume layout so that each physical RAID array group handles approximately the same level of work during each time period. |
| My vendor is recommending SSDs but I don't know to what extent I need them. |
IntelliMagic Balance can be used to assess the optimal number of SSD drives and to develop the actual migration plan at the logical volume level. |
