Network Cleanup
Network Cleanup or Capacity Recovery is the process of regaining wasted space on your network storage. Understanding the
information on your network is the first step to implementing Storage Resource Management (SRM) principles.
Once you discover what is happening with the information on your network you can start examining and adopting best
practices used by other organizations or implementing your own specific policies. Before you start planning, recording
performance data, and predicting storage growth you will need to recover capacity that has been, to some extent, unmanaged.
This information may include redundant, repeated, and unknown data.
Find and Remove Unnecessary Files
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FileCensus can quickly identify files that have been somewhat unmanaged. Given that FileCensus captures information
about all of your files, it becomes easy to identify files that are: large, duplicated, replicated, obsolete, orphaned,
stale and/or illegal. Once you have examined these files and associated users, directories and shared resources using
a range of easy reporting and search screens, FileCensus allows you to regain your capacity - and we have seen up
40% capacity regained!
Spot Unusual File Types
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The profile report makes finding abnormal files within your storage environment a simple process. FileCensus allows
you to define a range of file categories, each with a list of matching file types. The profile report allows you to
compare and contrast the relative sizes of each type of file within all of your volumes. This report is very useful
for quickly identifying servers that contain unusual amounts of applications, temporary files or multi-media files.
