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Your in-depth System Healthcheck will commence with a System Overview that will assess some fundamental usage statistics. These figures will be used to build an outline of your current environment and feed into a more detailed analysis including the following checks:
Resiliency
- Original design functionality is correctly configured and working
- System data paths, adaptors and ports are correctly configured and working
- Clustering functionality and / or HACMP settings
- Consistency of original system configuration against current requirements
- Possible future needs to meet business objectives
Performance
- Service level requirements of the system
- Usage peaks and trends
- Perceived bottlenecks or “hotspots”
- System optimisation
- Utilisation of spare capacity
Business Continuity
- Disaster recovery (DR) process
- Business Continuity (BC) Planning and documentation
- Scheduled tests
- Ability to recover in the event of a disaster
- Consistency of current system against BC requirements
Backup and Recovery
- Current back-up process
- Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
- Compliancy requirements
- Data retention policies and procedures
- Possible future needs to meet business objectives
Capacity Planning
- Current storage environment, capacity and usage
- Storage and data growth plans
- Known performance issues
- Archiving and retention policies
- Sizing and scalability
Software and Hardware Support
- Firmware levels (inc. Version and Update Review)
- OS and software levels (inc. Version and Update Review)
- Current support arrangements for both hardware and software
- System software licensing (where applicable)
- System settings
The resulting analysis will be used to compile a report of findings along with recommendations for covering any shortfalls, deficiencies and likely future requirements.
