What your storage array costs to run is not on any one bill

Yes 2

Written down, with a date (a log, a screen, a document), and it meets your own plan.

Partly 1

Remembered, but not written down, or the record shows you missed your plan.

No 0

Nobody knows, or it was never done. A blank is a finding.

"None, checked on a date" counts as a record. No plan or target written down? Write your guess first, then measure: the guess is your plan.

Tap No, Partly or Yes for each question. Your score adds up as you go. Nothing you tap is saved or sent.

Five questions about your own setup

1. 1 Support

   Your answer, and where it is written down (with the date) What does the support contract cost for a year?

   Your answer

   No 0Partly 1Yes 2
   Score 0, 1 or 2This quarterNext quarter

   How to raise it

   Where to find it:

   The yearly cost on the support contract, or on its last renewal.

   To get it to a 2:

   The yearly figure copied from the contract or renewal, with the date you read it.

2. 2 Power and cooling

   Your answer, and where it is written down (with the date) How much power does the array draw, and what does that cost over a year at your rate, cooling included?

   Your answer

   No 0Partly 1Yes 2
   Score 0, 1 or 2This quarterNext quarter

   How to raise it

   Where to find it:

   The power draw in kilowatts (the power the array uses at one moment) from the array's own management screen or the metered power strips it plugs into (add both if it has two power supplies). Multiply by the hours in a year, then by the rate per kilowatt-hour (the unit a power bill charges by) from the facilities or data center bill. If that bill lists cooling as its own line, add it.

   To get it to a 2:

   A power reading from the array's screen or its metered strips and a rate from a bill, both written down with their dates.

   What this does not prove:

   One reading is one moment. It does not show what the array draws on a busy day or a quiet one.

3. 3 Rack space

   Your answer, and where it is written down (with the date) What does the rack space the array takes cost for a year?

   Your answer

   No 0Partly 1Yes 2
   Score 0, 1 or 2This quarterNext quarter

   How to raise it

   Where to find it:

   Take the monthly space line of the rack bill and divide it by the rack units in the rack (one rack unit is one slot). Multiply by the units your array takes, then by twelve.

   To get it to a 2:

   A dated count of units and a monthly space line read from a bill.

4. 4 Team hours

   Your answer, and where it is written down (with the date) How many hours did your team log against the array over the last three months, and what does that come to for a year?

   Your answer

   No 0Partly 1Yes 2
   Score 0, 1 or 2This quarterNext quarter

   How to raise it

   Where to find it:

   The ticket history: alerts, patching, adding capacity. Multiply the three months by four, then by what one hour of that person's time costs you, from payroll or a rate you already use. This is the hardest one to find.

   To get it to a 2:

   Hours taken from tickets, not guessed, for a stated three months, with the hourly rate and where it came from.

   What this does not prove:

   Tickets show the hours someone logged. They do not show the quiet work nobody wrote down.

5. 5 The total, dated

   Your answer, and where it is written down (with the date) Have you added the four and written the total next to today's date?

   Your answer

   No 0Partly 1Yes 2
   Score 0, 1 or 2This quarterNext quarter

   How to raise it

   Where to find it:

   Rows 1 to 4.

   To get it to a 2:

   A total written with its date, inside the interval your team sets for reading it again. No interval written down? Write your guess (once a year, once a quarter) and score against it.