Storage Resource Manager Enterprise Edition Installation Guide

1–2 Storage Resource Manager Enterprise Edition
Introduction
• An average of the number of managed file systems where each user has space.
Typically, a user has space on a few file systems, but not on all managed file
systems.
• Fifteen hundred users.
• The total number of users known to the SRM Server. To SRM, a user is one who
owns at least one file on a managed file system.
• One hundred managed directories.
• The number of directories that you designate as managed. The history kept for
these directories is in addition to what is kept for the user and domain history
settings.
• One hundred eighty days of user history.
• The maximum number of daily records of user group history you want stored in
the database.
• One hundred eighty days of domain history.
• The maximum number of daily records of domain history you want stored in the
database.
• Twenty file system report files.
• The maximum number of files you want to keep track of for the File System
Report Size settings. This number correlates to the three File System Level
Settings you can specify using the SRM Reports Summary option.
Domain Planning
There are three concepts to remember for multiple domain planning:
• The relationship between the SRM Server and Agents, for communication
authentication.
• The relationship between the SRM Server and the SQL Server, for database
access.
• The location of the SRM Server’s Service Login Account. The domain of each
SRM element must trust the domain of the SRM Server’s Service Login Account.
NOTE: An SRM Server in a workgroup cannot monitor SRM Agent computers in a domain.
The next sections contain worksheets to help you plan your multiple domain trusts.
The worksheets explain the trusts needed in two possible multiple domain
configurations: the SRM Service Login Account and the SRM Server in the same