Tutorial: Creating a predefined capacity report about tiered pools

Create a pools by tier report to share information about the capacity of the pools that are assigned to your production platform.

The pools that are used on you production platform are assigned to one or more tiers.
Assign pools to tiers: Click Storage > Pools. To add the Tier column to the table, right-click any column heading, and select Tier. Select and then right-click the pools on your production platform, and click Set Tier. If you used a naming pattern for the pools or storage systems that are assigned to your production platform, you can filter the pools by pool or storage system name. Just click Filter by column. Then select Name or Storage System and enter the pattern that matches the names of the pools or storage systems in the filter.

You want to create a scheduled report that shows the key capacity values of the pools on your production platform.

  1. Click Reports, and then click Create Report.
  2. Pick the Pools capacity report.
  3. Enter the name of the report, and click Capacity information about one or more pools.
  4. Select Tiers from the Pools drop-down list.
    A list of the tiers that were created is shown.
  5. Select the tiers that you created for your production platform.
    When you click Next, capacity information about the pools assigned to the tiers that you selected is shown.
  6. Select the capacity information that you want to include in the report.
    Tip: Include the name of the tier in the report. In the General section, click Tier. Drag the Tier column and drop it before the Name column. To sort the pools by the tiers they are assigned to, click the Tier column.
  7. To refine the information that you want to include in the report, add filters.
  8. Schedule the delivery of the report.