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Analyzing Servers and NAS Storage Devices

DiskSavvy allows one to analyze disk space usage in all network shares of one or more servers or NAS storage devices on the network. In order to analyze one or more servers, open the disk space analysis dialog, press the 'Add' button located on the right side of the list of analysis locations, select the 'Analyze Servers or NAS Devices' mode and enter one or more host names or IP addresses separated by the semicolon (;) character.

Analyze Disk Space Usage in Network Servers

DiskSavvy will scan the network and show a list of network shares detected in the specified servers and NAS storage devices allowing one to select one or more network shares that should be analyzed. In order to be able to use this feature, the user needs to have permissions to access network shares.

Search Network Shares

The network shares scanning operation may be performed multiple times for different servers and NAS storage devices and an unlimited number of network shares from different servers may be added to the disk space analysis operation. During runtime, DiskSavvy will analyze all the specified network shares in parallel using all CPUs and/or CPU-cores available in the host computer DiskSavvy is running on.

Analyze Disk Space Usage in Network Shares

DiskSavvy allows one to scan the network, discover network servers and NAS storage devices, automatically detect all accessible network shares and analyze disk space usage in hundreds of network servers and NAS storage devices. In addition, the user is provided with the ability to export the list of detected servers and NAS storage devices (including lists of network shares for each server) into HTML, PDF, text and Excel CSV reports.

Discover Network Servers and NAS Storage Devices

In order to discover all network servers and NAS storage devices on the network, press the 'Network' button located on the main toolbar and wait while DiskSavvy will scan the network and show a list of detected network servers and NAS storage devices. In order to analyze disk space usage in one or more servers or NAS storage devices, select the required servers and NAS storage devices and press the 'Analyze' button.

Analyze Network Shares

DiskSavvy will show all accessible network shares hosted on the selected servers and NAS storage devices allowing one to analyze disk space usage and save various types of disk space analysis charts and reports. In addition, the user is provided with the ability to customize a large number of advanced disk space analysis options allowing one to tune disk space analysis operations for user specific needs and hardware configurations.