Creating a department hierarchy

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To monitor the capacity and space usage of the department, you want to create a department hierarchy and associate applications with the department hierarchy. You can also monitor the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications that you add to the department hierarchy.

About this task

In this scenario, you want to monitor the capacity and space usage of departments in a business organization that sells books. You also want to monitor the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications or application subcomponents that are used by the departments.
The sales department of the organization, Book Sales, has these subdepartments:
  • Wholesale
  • Retail
  • Online
To monitor the storage resources that the Books Sales department uses and that each of its subdepartments use, complete these tasks:
  • Create a department for Book Sales.
  • Create the Wholesale, Retail, and Online subdepartments that you want to add to the department:
    • Create the subdepartments as departments.
    • Add the departments as subdepartments to the department.
    • Add the applications to the subdepartments.

Results

You can now view charts and information about the capacity and space usage of the department and each of the subdepartments on the Departments page and the Subdepartments page. You can also view charts and information about the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications or application subcomponents that the departments and subdepartments use.
Tip: In the Subdepartments column for the department on the Departments page, the name of the subdepartment is shown. If you add two or more departments to a subdepartment, the number of subdepartments is shown. To view information about the subdepartments, click the name of the subdepartment or the number.

What to do next

You can view the total capacity and space usage for the department and the capacity and space usage for each of the subdepartments. You can add to your department hierarchy by adding more applications and departments.