Tutorial: Creating a predefined capacity report about pools

Create, schedule, and send predefined capacity reports about your pools by email, to keep your colleagues informed about capacity usage and to help them plan capacity purchases and prevent capacity shortages.

About this task

You want to send a regular report to the owners of block storage resources so that they'll know:
  • Which pools are depleted
  • When the pools will run out of capacity

To do this, you include the Zero Capacity column and create a filter.

What's zero capacity: The capacity information that is collected over 180 days is analyzed to determine, based on historical storage consumption, when the pools will run out of capacity. The pools that have already run out of capacity are marked as depleted. For the other pools, a date is provided so that you know when the pools are projected to run out of capacity. If sufficient information isn't collected to analyze the storage usage of the pool, None is shown as the value for zero capacity. If a capacity limit is set for the pool, the date shown in the Zero Capacity column is the date when the available capacity based on the capacity limit will be depleted. For example, if the capacity limit for a 100 GiB pool is 80%, it is the date when the available capacity of the pool is less than 20 GiB. Depleted is shown in the column when the capacity limit is reached.

Procedure

  1. Click Reports, and then click Create Report.
  2. In the Capacity Reports section, click Pools.
  3. Enter the unique name of the report.
  4. To specify the range of the report, choose one of the following options:
    Choose pools
    Option Description
    Capacity information about all of the pools Generate capacity information about all of the pools in your storage environment.
    Capacity information about one or more pools Generate information about a set of pools. You can select the pools by the storage systems that they belong to or by the tiers that the pools are assigned to.
    Capacity information about the pools that are assigned to a group Generate information about the pools that were assigned to a general group such as an application.
  5. Add and remove columns to choose the capacity and any other information that you want to include in the report.
  6. Add up to four filters to deliver the capacity information that the report's recipients need.
    Zero capacity filter
    Tip: To make sure that the report's recipients get the information that you want them to get, use the report preview feature. Each time you apply a filter, or make a configuration change to the report, such as add or remove a column or filter, the table view of the report is refreshed.
  7. Send the report now or schedule the report to be sent regularly, such as every week, or month.
    You can send the report by email, and attach the report as a CSV file, PDF file, or HTML file.

Results

The Reports page opens where you can preview and edit the report that you created.