Which NetApp tool provides proactive recommendations for optimizing storage environments?

• A. Cloud Insights Storage Workload Security
• B. Active IQ digital advisor
• C. ONTAP System Manager
• D. Active IQ Unified Manager

Answer: (B)

Proactive optimization recommendations come from Active IQ digital advisor. This tool analyzes telemetry from NetApp storage across your environment—ONTAP clusters, arrays, and cloud resources—to spot waste, over- or under-provisioned workloads, and opportunities to improve performance and efficiency. It then prescribes concrete actions, such as resizing volumes, enabling compression or deduplication, adjusting QoS or tiering, and planning upgrades or hardware refreshes, so you can optimize capacity, cost, and performance before issues arise. Other tools focus on monitoring, management, or multi-cluster oversight, but they don’t center on delivering proactive, prescriptive optimization guidance the way digital advisor does.