EUCPERF05-BP01 Understand your existing storage requirements, policies, and solutions

If your EUC workload already uses storage volumes, operations policies, and vendor solutions, make sure that you not only understand what products and services they are based on, but also identify the features, advantages, and benefits associated with each in your existing workload. Decide whether these are best suited to your applications and technical goals. Otherwise, develop a set of new functional requirements and solutions that will better address your requirements.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium

Implementation guidance

Begin by understanding the storage requirements for each use case. Relevant requirements include the following:

Also, consider organizational policies and existing solutions (for example, if policy dictates that users store all files in a central repository).