Storage Report Collection

Use the Storage reports to understand the cost, capacity, and utilization of your Storage resources. The reports in this collection allow you to analyze your spend profile, understand Storage metrics, analyze your storage details (devices and logical units), and understand an Applications view of your storage.

The collection provides granular reporting so you can optimize storage costs and utilization.

This report collection is designed for the following roles:

• Director of IT
• Compute team in IT
• Head of Operations
• Service Owners

This report collection aligns to the following business goals:

• View Storage costs against plan for both on-premises and cloud servers
• Track Storage infrastructure strategy and use of Storage resources to determine whether Storage spending is trending as expected
• View Storage capacity (installed and addressable) and year-over-year changes

These reports enable you to determine the following:

• Whether storage tiers properly aligned with the business criticality of your application portfolio
• Storage units that are approaching the end of their serviceable lifecycle
• The cost of unallocated storage capacity
• The average unit cost of total available storage
• The effective unit cost of allocated storage
• The average utilization rate by storage tier
• Opportunities are to reclaim under-utilized storage