Viewing capacity information

You can monitor the capacity of your storage resources by viewing key metrics. For example, you can view the used capacity and available capacity of your monitored storage systems.

About this task

Ensure that you deployed a data collector and that it can access the storage system.

Procedure

  1. Choose one of the following options:
    • IBM® Storage Insights Pro: Click Dashboards > Operations.
    • IBM Storage Insights: Click Dashboards.
  2. Click the storage system tile on the dashboard, for example, click a IBM Storage FlashSystem V9000 storage system for which the data collector is deployed.
    The capacity information is displayed in the Overview page. You can see the used capacity, available capacity, and total storage system capacity. Additionally, if data is available, you can see compression savings, which is the estimated percentage of the capacity of the resource that is saved by using data compression.
    Tip: On the Overview page, you can also see key performance information, such as the response time and I/O rate, for the storage system.