Viewing capacity usage charts and other information

View easy-to-understand charts that visualize your capacity usage, base capacity, and any overages that require additional billing during the current and previous months. View the list of storage systems that provide storage to a STaaS environment.

Table 1. Viewing capacity usage charts and other information about STaaS
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View Current Month Usage chart
  1. From the Dashboards menu, click Storage as a Service. A list of STaaS environment is displayed.
  2. Double-click the environment that you want to view.
  3. On the Overview page, use the Current Month Usage chart to track your daily capacity usage and overages up to the current day for the month. Used capacity is shown for each day of the month. Daily Overage represents the amount of capacity that you used above the base capacity for your plan (represented by a horizontal line) each day.

    The monthly averages of the daily capacity usage and overage determine the values Month-to-Date Average Usage and Month-to-Date Variable Usage values. These values are then used to determine your service bill for the month.

    Important: The Month-to-Date Average values on the STaaS dashboard might vary slightly with the values on chart and the values that are used for your actual billing. Your billing is based on the capacity usage that is derived by the IBM® iERP system. Because of this possible variation, use the values on the chart as a general indicator of your upcoming billing.
View Monthly Usage chart
  1. From the Dashboards menu, click Storage as a Service. A list of STaaS environment is displayed.
  2. Double-click the environment that you want to view.
  3. On the Overview page, use the Monthly Usage chart to track your average capacity usage for previous months and any overages that occurred. Overages represent the amount of capacity that you used above the base capacity for your plan (represented by a horizontal line) during each month. This chart can help you identify trends and plan for future capacity needs in the upcoming months and during high-volume times of the year.

View the properties of a STaaS environment

  1. From the Dashboards menu, click Storage as a Service. A list of STaaS environment is displayed.
  2. Double-click the environment that you want to view.
  3. From General, click View Properties.

View a list of storage systems that provide storage to a STaaS environment.

  1. From the Dashboards menu, click Storage as a Service. A list of STaaS environment is displayed.
  2. Double-click the environment that you want to view.
  3. From Members, click Block Storage Systems.

    The number in parentheses shows the number of storage systems that are associated to the environment, for example, Block Storage Systems (2).