The EVS LAN Audit Tool helps customers prune data before they subscribe to EVS Services. Enterprise users can use it to reduce the volume of data to be backed up, gleaning a better understanding of the changing frequency of data. This is all possible because the EVS LAN Audit Tool will uncover information about data such as size of files, ownership within the company, duplicate information and the rate at which files have been modified.
This knowledge is particularly important for a centrally located storage administrator who is typically less aware of how data behaves at remote sites and provides for a more meaningful backup consolidation project that ensures better recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for data with cost containment.
Customers that choose to invest in the EVS LAN Audit Tool will be able to plan an effective and comprehensive backup strategy tailored to their backup and recovery needs.
The EVS LAN Audit Tool performs a detailed analysis of the various types of data across your network. The resulting statistics and reporting become the foundation of an effective backup strategy highlighting opportunities to reduce the costs of both data backup and LAN storage.
The first step is the installation of the EVS LAN AUDIT TOOL software. Once installed the software scans and collects detailed information about your data. Several scans are recommended to allow the software to collect trending information related to the growth of the data.
Scanning can be customized to audit the entire network of servers, a select group of servers, or a single share on a single server. The scanning process can take from several hours to several days depending on the size of the network and the amount of data to scan.
Once the scan is complete, EVS LAN AUDIT TOOL creates a number of reports in HTML or Excel format. EVS will share all the collected data with you along with an expert analysis of the findings.
Reports include:
- Largest Files
- Largest Duplicates
- Ownership
- File Type Distribution
- Partition Sizes
- Access Reports / Dormant Files
- Growth and Modified Files
- SQL Server Sizes
- Exchange Server Sizes
CAN PROVIDE INIDIVIDUAL GRAPHIC
By using the EVS LAN Audit Tool to thoroughly analyze the storage network before investing in a backup management solution, enterprises can implement policies and procedures that will help manage corporate data while controlling costs and optimizing storage resources.
