• Running the BVQ Offline scanner is easy and non-critical. No installation is needed and it can be run on any MS Windows, Linux or MacOS based client system with TCP/IP connection to the systems to scan.
• Scan time is dependent on the objective of the scan:
  
  • 10 -14 days of scanning is sufficient to prepare for any kind of analysis like risk analysis or IO density analysis for storage planning. This timeframe is also used for a BVQ PoC.
  • 5-7 days of scanning is the minimum to prepare for a risk analysis.
  • 1-2 days of scanning can be used for short term performance issue analysis (e.g. peak latency analysis) given that the bottleneck actually happens in this time. (Please let us know, when exactly the performance issue occurred.)
    
    
• There's a video tutorial available which shows how to use the scanner for SVC/Storwize:
  Video how to run the BVQ Offline scanner
  
  
• Contact your BVQ partner or the BVQ team to prepare an analysis of the data:
  https://www.bvq-software.de/en/contact/ or send a mail to BVQ@sva.de

If you scan a V7000 unified then please enter the IP address of the storage system, not the unified heads! The offline scanner can not distinguish between these systems and will not collect any data if the wrong IP address is entered.