Storage (SAN tier 1, 2, 3) service
Best practices to right-size consumption
- Limit database storage to peak usage plus 20 percent (source: Gartner)
- Select the proper SAN tier for the business need (data and performance)
- Ensure stored data is agency-related and eliminate non-business usage (e.g., personal music and video files)
- Eliminate data redundancy (e.g., multiple copies of databases)
- Determine and enforce data retention requirements
Sources of information/reports
- Invoice Detail Report on ITFM
Steps to request service change
- Submit a request in the GETS Service Catalog to change allocated storage amount: Infrastructure Services > Storage/Backup
See also a glossary of GETS terms in the PDF below offering useful descriptions of elements referenced above: