Backup Assessment

The primary objective of this service is to analyze the customer’s current systems and make recommendations for TSM operational enhancements with overall storage audit.

Gresham will perform a comprehensive Backup Assessment to identify the current state of the Customer’s IT infrastructure at customer’s data center(s) as they are related to disk and tape storage management practices and processes. This may include an analysis of equipment configurations and network infrastructure. Gresham will assess the entire TSM environment, which will include:

  • Backup Practices
    Capacities
    Frequencies
    Number/size of files
    Percent and rate of change of target files and data
    Performance of TSM clients to TSM servers (data transfer speed)

  • System Infrastructure
    TSM Clients
    TSM Servers
    LAN-Free Clients (if not used, recommend where applicable)
    System Topology
      IP Network Load
      SAN Architecture
      Number, Capacity, Throughput and Access of Read/Write Elements
      Media Robotics Systems Capacities and Access Speeds

  • Data Retention Policies

  • Data Restore Requirements
    Response Requirements
    Tape Copy Pools
    Local
    Vault
    Media lifecycle returning to scratch

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