Storage Selector Tool · StrgST

Size the storage, pick the array, and get the design

Describe the workloads and the service you need. The tool works out the capacity and performance, scores every array in the catalogue on a fit percentage, recommends the best model overall and per OEM, then lays out the drives, pools, LUNs, volumes, file systems, shares and buckets in the OEM's own terms, with logical and implementation diagrams and Word, PowerPoint and Excel reports.

420models

22OEMs

11criteria

Project

Design name Customer Site Prepared by

Workloads

One row per workload. Capacity is the data stored today in TB; leave IOPS and MB/s empty to use a planning figure for the type. Changing the type fills in typical access, data reduction and snapshot reserve - adjust them if you know better.

Name	Type	Access	Protocol	TB today	Peak IOPS	Peak MB/s	Reduction x:1	Snap %	Hosts	DR

Up to 16 workloads. They are consolidated onto one array (or one cluster).

Growth and capacity

Growth per year (%) Planning horizon (years) Maximum pool fill (%)Headroom kept free at the end of the horizon.

Media, latency and protection

Media Latency target Drive failure tolerance

Host connectivity

SAN fabric for block FC port speed Ethernet port speed

Availability and disaster recovery

Availability target Replication to a second site Include a matching DR array

Data services required

Encryption at rest Immutable snapshots / object lock Built-in ransomware detection Quality of service Tiering to cloud Kubernetes CSI driver VMware vVols

Snapshots, thin provisioning and - where a workload expects more than 1.5:1 - deduplication and compression are always checked.

Specifications come only from each OEM's official website; anything the OEM does not publish is shown as "to confirm".

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