ABSTRACT
The ultimate strategy of monitoring and reporting within data protection must be to have a single source of truth; a single platform that can reveal the entire health of the data protection environment. Within data protection, monitoring is the real-time or semi-real-time capture and analysis of system events and data that gives the business a clear understanding of whether the environment is reliable. There are three key focuses of monitoring in data protection: health; capacity; and performance. Effective monitoring also has to consider data such as mean time between failures (MTBF); mean time to repair (MTTR); predicted failures; and warnings. Both MTBF and MTTR offer very useful information in a data protection environment. Redundant array of independent disks (RAID) systems are a fundamental component of data protection-their entire purpose is to provide a mechanism to sustain continued access to data in the event of a component failure and be able to rebuild from that failure.
