Tutorial: Creating a predefined capacity report about the volumes assigned to servers

Create, schedule, and send predefined reports about the capacity of the volumes that are assigned to servers .

About this task

When you create reports about the capacity of volumes, you can select volumes:
  • By the storage systems that they belong to.
  • By the pools that they belong to.
  • By the servers that they are assigned to.
  • By the applications that they are assigned to.

In this tutorial, you create a capacity report about the volumes that are assigned to the servers in your storage environment.

Procedure

  1. Click Reports, and then click Create Report.
  2. Click the Volumes capacity report.
  3. Enter the name of the report.
  4. Select Capacity information about one or more volumes.
  5. On the Select Volumes page, select Servers from the Volumes list.
  6. On the Select Volumes by Servers page, you can:
    1. Choose all of the servers.
    2. Choose one or more of the servers.
    3. Select Name from the Filter Filter list. Then, enter a pattern that matches the names of the servers that you want to select.
  7. Choose the columns that you want to include in the report.
    You can rearrange the columns by dropping the columns where you want them to appear in the report.
  8. Add a filter and then click Apply Filter.
    For example, you can create a weekly report that lists the volumes with a used capacity greater than 80%.
  9. Schedule the report.