The CommVault Simpana Health Check proactively examines your implementation of Simpana backup and recovery software in terms of its performance, functionality and value as a business tool.

The main areas of focus include:

Operational Issues Assessment
• Identify business requirements and issues and relate to the softwares capability and current CommCell configuration

Software Inventory and Compatibility Review
• Collect Software/Firmware release levels, validate against supported system requirements and against recommended levels

CommCell Review
• CommCell Configuration, validation and review of Critical Events / Logs

Applications and Configuration Review
• Validate Applications backup/archive/restore/recovery requirements against current operation
• Verify desired backup policies against actual Simpana Storage Policies, Scheduling, and Media Management configuration

Operational and Scalability Review
• Overall review of backup/restore successes, failures, root-causes, data protection window utilisation
• Performance and Load analysis and review environment against CommVault Systems’ developed Scalability and Sizing Guidelines
• Analysis of existing and applicable Simpana reports and configuration data

Our Approach:

Analysis Phase
Our CommVault consultants will work with you to:
• Understand your issues and business requirements
• Perform a detailed analysis of your CommVault Simpana configuration and its entire environment

Reporting Phase

• Produce a report documenting our findings and recommendations
• Meet with you to present and discuss our findings and recommendations

Proposal Phase

• Having obtained your feedback, if required, we can produce a firm proposal together with an outline project plan and estimated costs to implement our recommendations