I am trying to find a tool that can help forecast SAN and tape archive capacity needs when you know you are going to be ingesting a new (and large - TB's a day) data source. Kind of adding a step function to your current data storage. So far researching vendor SRM tools is geeting me no where. Even in direct discussions with them (Aptare, Solarwinds, EMC) they say they can not handle this. Capacity planing in SRM is all about using existing measures (and past) to get trends.
Any idea if any company or GOTS or open source tool can handle planning when you must consider future ingests for SAN and tape
Opening Pandora's Box of SAN Management - Guest speaker Ryan Perkowski from a large US financial services firm.