Consumer reports

Configure consumer reports to calculate the cost and capacity of the block storage that is used by a storage consumer such as an application, a department, or a physical server.

You configure, schedule, and send consumer reports so that the owner or manager of the storage consumer knows the cost of maintaining the block storage that the storage consumer uses.

In the Configure Report section, you include the total block storage capacity and, if your storage is tiered, the total capacity by tier in your report. You can also include the total primary capacity and the total copy capacity of the storage that is used, and you can include the total capacity:

For VDisk mirrors
For FlashCopy® and Safeguarded Copy volumes
For remote mirrors such as Global Mirror, Global Copy, and Metro Mirror

In the Set Storage Cost section, you set the cost per TiB of the block storage that the storage consumer uses.

You set the costs as follows:

If your storage environment is tiered, you set the price per TiB for each tier of storage
If your storage environment is not tiered, you set the price per TiB for all of your block storage
If your storage environment contains tiered and non-tiered storage, you can set the price per TiB for the tiered storage, but you can't set a price for the non-tiered storage. Although you can't set the cost for the non-tiered storage, the capacity of the non-tiered storage that is used is calculated.