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For any who follow ITIL procedures, is there any specific best practice for this situation. Our IT section have a number of file servers with limited storage capacity (around 1TB). However, they are constantly running towards capacity, i.e. &gt;90% free space. I know the quick answer is &quot;add more space&quot;, but that may too fill relatively quickly. Does ITIL give any specific guidance on such situations on how to manage such an issue properly? Id be amazed if ITIL just said &quot;add more space every time it fills&quot;... these are all windows VM's on SAN storage running windows server 2008 R2
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For any who follow ITIL procedures, is there any specific best practice for this situation. Our IT section have a number of file servers with limited storage capacity (around 1TB). However, they are constantly running towards capacity, i.e. >90% free space. I know the quick answer is "add more space", but that may too fill relatively quickly. Does ITIL give any specific guidance on such situations on how to manage such an issue properly? Id be amazed if ITIL just said "add more space every time it fills"... these are all windows VM's on SAN storage running windows server 2008 R2

capacity management of file servers

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