Sheet: Sheet1Sheet: Sheet2Sheet: Sheet3Sheet: Sheet4Sheet: Sheet5Sheet: Sheet6Sheet: Sheet7Sheet: Sheet8Sheet: Sheet9Sheet: Sheet10Sheet: Sheet11Sheet: Sheet12Sheet: Sheet13Sheet: Sheet14Sheet: Sheet15Sheet: Sheet16WorksheetSECTION A: FRAGMENTATION DRAIN ON YOUR SYSTEMBelow is a series of questions designed to gauge the percentage of performance drain on your system due to fragmentation. Please fill out each question, then total the point value for all the questions and fill in the total at the end of this section. From the total you will be able to get a good idea of the degree of performance drain you are experiencing from fragmentation on your system. This will not give you an exact answer. By answering these questions, you will get an approximate figure you can use to find out approximately how much fragmentation is costing you, in dollars and cents.1. If your disks are:Points:Below 79% full1.080-89% full4.090-95% full7.0over 95% full10.0Fill in value here2. How much idle time does your system have? To find out, at a peak period of the day, and if ona cluster, on your busiest node, type this command:$ MONITOR MODESObserve the bottom line of the graph. Which range does it mostly fluctuate in?Points:75-100%1.050-75%3.025-50%6.00-25%10.0Fill in value here3. What is your split transfer rate (split I/Os)? To find out, at a peak period of the day, and if on a cluster, on your busiest node, type this command:$ MONITOR IOThe fourth line gives you the split transfer rate. Use the figure from the "AVE" column.Points:0.50 or below1.00.50 to 2.005.02.00 to 10.008.0over 10.0010.0Fill in value here4. Is your computer used primarily for:Pointsa. Furniture1.0b. Research & Development4.0c. Real time Data Collection7.0d. Multi-User Applications10.0Fill in value here5. Types of applications you are running: Please check all that apply. If you check more than one, take the full value of the highest one, then half value for all others.a. Backup or redundant system1.0b. System used for R&D only3.0c. Running inventory control, production control4.0d. Running word processing/text editing/electronic mail 5.0e. Running databases that use pre-allocated disk space5.0f. Running CAD/CAM7.0g. Compiling/executing FORTRAN/ Ada/BASIC/Other languages7.0h. Running databases that do not use pre-allocated disk space10.0Fill in value here6. How many hours per day is your computer being used with users logged in?Pointsa. less than 82.0b. 8-12 hours/day4.0c. 12-16 hours/day7.0d. 16-24 hours/day 10.0Fill in value here7. Is your system part of a computer cluster?Pointsa. No1.0b. Yes; 2-4 nodes4.0c. Yes; 5-8 nodes7.0d. Yes; 9 or more nodes10.0Fill in value hereSECTION A: TOTAL:8. Total of your answers to questions 1-7 above:0.0 If your total is: 8-21 your estimated percentage of performance drain is 5%22-36 your estimated percentage of performance drain is 10%37-62 your estimated percentage of performance drain is 15%63-80 your estimated percentage of performance drain is 20%9. YOUR PERCENTAGE OF PERFORMANCE DRAIN FROM FRAGMENTATION (from table above)5%SECTION B: COST OF SYSTEM1. Cost of computer system:Cost of computer system, both hardware and software; if your do not know, estimate it as one of the following: $20,000; $50,000; $100,000; $200,000; $500,000; $1,000,0002. Payback periodThe payback period is the time within which your organization expects the computer system to have paid for itself. Typically this is 15 months, although some use 12 months, 18 months or some otherperiod (if you don't know the payback period used at your site, use 15 months).Payback Period:12 months15 months18 monthsFill in value here12.0Number of shifts run in 24 hours1.02.03.0Fill in value here1.0Total Payback hours:1999.99919999999973. Hourly cost of computer:0.0(Cost from line 1 above divided by total hours inpayback period from line 2 above)4. Weekly cost of computer0.0(Cost from line 3 above times work hours perweek 40, 80, 120, etc)5. Monthly cost of computer: 0.0(Weekly cost from line 4 above times 4.35)6. Monthly cost of hardware maintenance and software update service:7. Total monthly cost of computer0.0(Add lines 5 and 6)8. Percentage of performance drain due to fragmentation5%(percentage from Section A line 9)9. MONTHLY SYSTEM COSTS LOST DUETO FRAGMENTATION0.0 (line 7 times line 8 above)SECTION C: VALUE OF COMPUTER SYSTEM OPERATIONS PERSONNEL LOST DUE TO FRAGMENTATIONComputer Operations personnel are paid to make the computer perform.All maintenance, entry, programming and management jobs are wastedif the computer is down and being used as furniture. In such an instance100% of these salaries would be wasted.But a computer with 10% of its resources needlessly devoted to retrievingfile fragments is wasting 10% of the Computer Operations personnel timeand salaries. They cannot produce their service 100% of the time.Record the approximate weekly salaries of computer systemoperations personnel (computer operators, system managers, databaseadministrators and so on). If you don't know the weekly salaries, youcan use these figures as a rough guide: System Managers$800 - 1500Average: $1150Programmers$800 - 1800Average: $1300MIS Directors$1200 - 2000Average: $16001. Weekly salary of person #1Fill in value here:2. Weekly salary of person #2"3. Weekly salary of person #3"4. Weekly salary of person #4"5. Weekly salary of person #5"6. Weekly salary of person #6"7. Weekly salary of person #7"8. Weekly salary of person #8"9. Total weekly salary of all personnel (sum of lines #1 - 8 above)0.010. Monthly computer personnel salaries (weekly salaries from line #9 times 4.35)0.011. Percentage of performance drain due to fragmentation (percentage from Section A line 9)5%12. MONTHLY COMPUTER PERSONNEL SALARY WASTED DUE TO FRAGMENTATION (Line 10 above times Line 11 above)0.0SECTION D: VALUE OF USERS LOST DUE TOFRAGMENTATION DRAINThe computer has users. These users produce something, and thissomething has a value. Management has already assigned adollar amount to the minimum value of what they produce which is their salaries. If users have to spend time waiting for the computer to perform variousfunctions because it has been slowed down due to fragmentation,then the amount of time, added up, gives one a wasted expense. Theusers were paid to sit there and wait, whereas they could have beengetting more work done. So a computer that is being sloweddown 10% due to fragmentation is wasting 10% of the salaries of of those working on it who have to wait for it to do their work. Users maynot even notice this time after a while because they are used to it. Butif the loss were not there, they could be accomplishing 10% moreuseful work.Typically, there are two types of users: 1) full time computer userswho use the computer all day every day and who depend upon it toto do their jobs; and 2) part time computer users, who use the computeroccasionally and who get a productivity boost out of using it.Here are some typical salary ranges and averages to use. If you knowyour figures and they are different from these, then by all means use your figures. Clerical workers$400 - 600Average: $500Sales$600 - 1600Average: $1100Management$600 - 1500Average: $1050Research/Scientific$1000 - 2000Average: $1500FULL TIME USERS# of UsersCategoryAvg. SalaryTotal Salaries1.Clerical0.02.Sales0.03.Management0.04.Research/Scientific0.05. Total salaries from full time users 0.0PART TIME USERS# of UsersCategoryAvg. SalaryTotal Salaries6.Clerical0.07.Sales0.08.Management0.09.Research/Scientific0.010. Total salaries from part time users 0.011. Total part time salaries from line 10 above divided by 4 (to account for only part time use of the computer)0.012. Total weekly cost of all users (sum of line 5 and line 11 above)0.013. Monthly cost of all users (weekly cost from line 12 above, times 4.35)0.014. Percentage performance drain due to fragmentation (percentage from Section A line 9)5%15. MONTHLY USER SALARY WASTED DUE TO FRAGMENTATION(multiply line 13 times the percentage from line 14)0.0SECTION E: TOTAL FRAGMENTATION COSTSNow add up all the fragmentation-related costs and losses (from the previous sections): 1. MONTHLY SYSTEM COSTS LOST DUE TO FRAGMENTATION (from Section B line 9)0.02. MONTHLY COMPUTER PERSONNEL SALARY COSTS WASTED DUE TO FRAGMENTATION (from Section C line 12)0.03. MONTHLY USER SALARY LOST DUE TO FRAGMENTATION (from Section D line 15)0.04. TOTAL MONTHLY FRAGMENTATION-RELATED COSTS AND LOSSES (sum of lines 1-3 above) THIS IS THE AMOUNT DISKEEPER WILL SAVE YOU MONTHLY, ONCE PURCHASED0.05. ANNUAL COST (line 4 above times 12). THIS IS THE AMOUNT DISKEEPER WILL SAVE YOU YEARLY0.0SECTION F: COST JUSTIFYING DISKEEPERAs you can see, the costs of fragmentation are quite high, even if it iscausing only a 5% drain on system performance. Remember, too,these estimates are conservative because without regulardefragmentation, the performance drain due to fragmentation is compounded weekly.Now let's do the final figures to see how fast DISKEEPER will pay foritself at your site.1. YOUR QUOTE FOR BUYING DISKEEPER on your system.2. If your quote (line 1) is higher than the monthly cost offragmentation from Section E line 4, divide line 1 above by the numberfrom Section E line 4. This is the number of months it will take DISKEEPER to pay for itself.If Section E line 4 (monthly cost of fragmentation) is higher thanyour quote (from line 1), then DISKEEPER will pay for itself in lessthan one month, by speeding up system performance, allowing formore useful work to be done, and for better utilization of personnel.In such a case, fragmentation is costing your organization a great dealof money, and buying DISKEEPER now will start saving you money within one month.