Creating summary reports of the storage capacity

Configure reports that make managers aware of the capacity of the storage that is used by their applications, departments, hypervisors, or physical servers. The cost of the storage is not shown in the reports.

You can create reports that show the total capacity of the storage that is used by storage consumers and exclude the storage costs from the reports.

  1. Click Reports > Reports, and then click Create Report.
  2. Choose one of the following options:
    OptionSteps
    Create chargeback reports In the Summary Reports pane, click Chargeback.
    Create consumer reports In the Summary Reports pane, click Storage Consumer.
  3. Enter the report details and schedule the report.
  4. Choose one of the following options:
    OptionSteps
    Chargeback reports Choose the type of storage consumer.
    Consumer reports Choose the type of storage consumer and the storage consumer.
  5. To calculate the capacity that is assigned to the thin-provisioned volumes, click Assigned space.
    By default, the amount of space that is allocated to the thin-provisioned volumes is used to calculate the cost.
  6. Choose the unit of capacity measurement that you want to use in the report.
    Tip: To make sure that the recipients of the report get the report that they want, check the report preview.
  7. In the Configure Report section, choose the capacity values that you want to include in the report.
  8. By default, the storage costs are shown in the report. To exclude storage costs from the report, choose one of the following options.
    If you exclude costs from a report that uses default costs, the costs are excluded from all of the chargeback and consumer reports that use default costs.
    Storage cost optionSteps
    Use Default Cost
    1. Click the lock (lock icon) icon.
    2. In the Include Storage Cost in Report section, click No.
    Use Custom Cost In the Include Storage Cost in Report section, click No.
  9. Click Save.
    If you set the frequency of the report to Now, you click Save and Send.

The reports include the capacity values and exclude the costs of the capacity that is used.