Tutorial: Investigating compliance with the capacity limit

Track the compliance of your block storage systems with the capacity limit.

About this task

In this tutorial, you set the capacity limit for the storage systems on your production platform to 80%. Today, you want to create a chart that plots the compliance of your block storage systems with the capacity limit that was set. For more information, see Setting capacity limits.

Because you want to track capacity in relation to the capacity limit, you remove the Capacity (GiB) metric from the chart. And, you add the following metrics to track whether the available capacity of each storage system is over or under the capacity limit:
  • Capacity Limit (GiB)
  • Capacity-to-Limit (GiB)

Procedure

  1. From the Resources menu, click Block Storage Systems.
  2. Click the Capacity tab.
  3. Select the storage systems that you want to add to the capacity chart.
    To select multiple storage systems, press shift and click. You can add up to 10 storage systems at a time to the capacity chart.
  4. Click the Select Chart Metrics button, add Capacity Limit (GiB) and Capacity-to-Limit (GiB), and click Save.
    Capacity-to-limit chart

    Tip: To see the capacity metrics for a single resource, click a storage system in the Selected Resources section of the chart. And, if you want to focus on a specific period, you can change the default date range of a month to a week, or select start and end dates.

Results

You can identify the storage systems that comply with the capacity limit that was set.