SharePoint environment constantly evolves as users upload documents, create sites, and update files. Storage and site administration become a nightmare when administrators do not have a real-time view of their SharePoint environment and SQL back-end, specifically the ability to track trends and forecast the future.
Keep an eye on your SQL environment
GSX gives a real time view and access to trends in statistics in order to predict the evolution of SQL environment which can affect the performance of indexer, crawl and SharePoint frontend servers.
GSX informs in real time on the number of site collections, the total size of sites, the number of documents and the total size of documents in your environment.
Moreover, for each Content DB, GSX shows instantly all the sites with their description, the creation date the size of the site, the number of documents and the size of these documents for each site.
To have a real time view of your performance and overall environment is essential. Being able to compare the information in the correct time frame, between the servers or across your SQL environment is very useful.
Forecast your needs
By deploying GSX Monitor and Analyzer plus enabling the forecasting features, you can configure your trends and reports, feeling secure to plan and justify additional servers and resources.
Hence, in a very simple way, you can forecast what could be the number of site, the size, the volume of the document that should be part of your environment in the next few months. In the same way, you can also determine the performance, the availability, the RAM, the CPU, that your environment will need depending on the current performance.
Understanding that your SharePoint expert does not have time to spend on monitoring and reporting your SharePoint environment means that you need an alternative. Anyone can perform these tasks with GSX. Your expert can focus on value added tasks, delegating monitoring of your infrastructure to GSX.
