Creating predefined capacity reports

To share information about capacity availability, usage, and growth, create capacity reports. You can configure and refine the information that is included in the report so that your colleagues get the information that they need to monitor the resources that they manage and make capacity planning decisions.

Step 1: Pick your predefined report

Click Reports, and then click Create Report and pick the capacity report that you want to create.

Step 2: Name the report

Provide a unique name for your report. You can use alphabetical and numerical characters, hyphens, dashes, and blank spaces.

Step 3: Specify the scope of the report

Choose one of these options:

Option 1: Generate capacity information about all of the resources of a specific type.
Option 2: Generate capacity information about a selection of resources of a specific type.
Option 3: Generate capacity information about the resources of a specific type in a group.

Free version of IBM Storage Insights: Users can generate capacity reports for:

All block storage systems or a selection of block storage systems
All pools, or a selection of pools, or pools by storage systems

all storage systems or a selection of storage systems, and for all pools, a selection of pools, or pools by storage systems.

Option 1: All of the resources: Choose this option to generate a report about all of the resources, such as all storage systems, pools, volumes, managed disks, or NAS file systems.

Option 2: One or more of the resources: Choose this option to generate capacity information about a selection of resources such as a selection of storage systems, pools, volumes, managed disks, or NAS file systems.; When you create capacity reports about managed disks, pools, hosts, or volumes, you can group the types of resources, such as managed disks by storage systems, pools by storage systems, hosts by applications, and volumes by hosts.

Try it out: Click Reports, click Create Report, and choose the Pools capacity report. Choose capacity information for one or more resources, and select pools by storage systems or pools by tiers. To refine the list of the resources that are shown, you can enter a matching pattern for the names of the storage systems, or you can select the storage systems that contain the pools that you want to include in the report.
Option 3: Resources assigned to groups: You can also generate capacity information about the storage systems that belong to a group that you created, such as a general group that consists of the storage systems that are assigned to your production platform, or the storage resources that are assigned to an application or department.; Tip: The report you pick, determines the level of information that is shown about applications in reports. For example, if you want to see the capacity information about the set of volumes that you added to an application, create a Volumes capacity report and select the application. Or, if you want to see the capacity information about the filesets that you added to an application, create a Filesets capacity report and select the application.

Step 4: Select columns

To ensure that the report's recipients get the information that they need, you can add more information, such as the location of the resources or custom tags. You can also remove the information that your colleagues don't need.

Step 5: Add filters

To refine the information in the report, you can add up to four filters.

Sample filters for block storage systems capacity reports

For example, if you want to notify resource administrators or owners about capacity shortfalls, you can set threshold values for capacity information. Or if you want to exclude information that is not of interest to the report's recipients, you can add a filter.

Don't forget to check the table when you apply filters to make sure that the recipients of the report will get the information that they need.

Step 6: Schedule and deliver the report

To notify your colleagues of capacity or configuration anomalies, create one-off capacity and inventory reports or create a schedule to provide regular updates about the capacity or state of your storage assets.

Tip: If you want to modify the report in a spreadsheet, you can also attach the report as a CSV, PDF, or HTML file.

Review, edit, and delete reports

To review the report that you created, click Reports, expand the relevant section, such as Capacity Report for predefined capacity reports and Inventory Report for predefined inventory reports, and then select the report.

You can edit the report, such as change the name and scope of the report or schedule of the report. To delete the report, click Actions > Delete Report.

Tip: You want to send a scheduled report now, but you don't want to change the original schedule? Click Reports. Select the report, and click Actions > Run Now. The report is sent without changing the schedule that you saved.