Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

About business planning

OpsCenter Analytics is a management tool that helps you optimize your data protection environment with effective business planning. It delivers backup services to organizations, which include reporting on backup and recovery trends and managing datacenters . This product supports a wide range of backup and recovery solutions including NetBackup and Backup Exec. It seamlessly integrates with backup products and provides consistent reporting across them. It can collect data from the following target products:

OpsCenter's ability to forecast backup resource requirements helps datacenter executives to decide whether to maintain the existing resources or add new capacity. The detailed, drill-down OpsCenter reports help you determine the applications, databases, or business departments that are the heaviest consumers of backup resources. For example, in an environment running 20 instances of Oracle applications, you can generate a report showing resource consumption by department, server, or location. Depending on this information, organizations can provide appropriate resource planning in advance.

OpsCenter Analytics offers you a set of chargeback reports that detail backup service expenditures. By using these reports, you can track the backup use and recovery use and the associated cost. By using the chargeback function, you can define pricing models for backup service delivery and allocate costs to customers based on these models. For example, you can create a formula that determines charges based on kilobytes of backed up data over a period of time. Using this chargeback data, you can then present itemized invoices to internal customers, export chargeback tables to third-party billing systems, or use the data to analyze and justify expenditures.