Tutorial: Comparing storage usage in each department

In this tutorial, you compare the storage usage in each department within your organization to spot a potential storage usage issue.

To monitor the capacity and space usage of a department, you create the department and subdepartments, and you add the application subcomponents to the subdepartments.

You want to monitor the capacity and space usage of departments in an organization that sells books.

The sales department of the organization, Book Sales, has these subdepartments:

Wholesale
Retail
Online

Although you can add applications and application subcomponents when you create departments, it is easier and quicker to create the applications and application subcomponents beforehand.

You want to know the total amount of storage space that the Book Sales department uses, and you want to know the amount of space that each subdepartment uses. To know how much space the Book Sales and its subdepartments use, you must associate the department and its subdepartments with the applications that they use. For example, the Book Sales department and its subdepartments use a database application named Book Sales DB. The Book Sales DB application contains these subcomponents:

Wholesale Transactions
Retail Transactions
Online Transactions

To create the department and subdepartments, you complete these tasks:

You create the Wholesale department and add the applications and application subcomponents that the subdepartment uses.
You create the Retail department and add the applications and application subcomponents that the subdepartment uses.
You create the Online department and add the applications and application subcomponents that the subdepartment uses.
You create the Book Sales department.
You do not have to add applications or subcomponents to the Book Sales department because the Book Sales department inherits the applications and application subcomponents that are added to the subdepartments.
You add the Wholesale, Retail, and Online departments as subdepartments to the Book Sales department.

When you complete adding the departments and associating the departments with the applications that are used by the departments, you can view the information that is collected about the departments on the Departments page and on the details page for the department.

You want to target what department and what storage resources might be responsible for a change or a upward trend in significant storage usage. By correctly classifying the department or departments you can properly plan to archive or switch the storage within the organization.