Applications

View information about storage area network resources that you can model by using applications in your business environment. The monitoring and management of applications enables you to perform capacity trending, health monitoring, and performance troubleshooting tasks.

An application can be part of a department and have subcomponents that can contain a five level deep hierarchy. Applications that are grouped together can range from large line of business systems to specialized software, in a department that runs on either client computers or servers. For example, an application might be an automated billing system in the Finance department, VMware running in the Information Technology department or an email marketing system that is part of the Marketing department.

Another example might be an application named Database and the database contains logs and data, and a best practice is to place the logs and data on separate volumes. You might create subcomponents for the logs and data and these subcomponents become part of the Database application.

A storage administrator can use applications for planning purposes to diagnose how much storage a particular application is consuming in relation to the other applications in the business hierarchy. Another applicable usage for applications might be troubleshooting performance issues. The administrator checks the related resources that make up the application to see if there is a health status issue or can examine the performance of volumes that are used by the application.

The Applications page shows capacity information about the applications that are monitored and the actions that you can use to view and manage them. To see more detailed information, view properties and details for the application. If the application is associated with a department, information about that department is also shown.