Viewing capacity information
View the capacity and space usage information of resources such as block storage systems, volumes, and pools. You can view similar information for filesets, file systems, and file system pools as internal resources of file storage systems. You can view information for containers as internal resources of object storage systems. Additionally, you can view capacity and space usage information for resources that violated a specified capacity range and generated an alert.
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About this task
You can view the following capacity information:
- Capacity charts for block storage
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Table 1. View capacity charts for block storage Actions Navigation View capacity charts for block storage systems. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click one or more storage systems and click .
View the capacity charts for all block storage pools. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click one or more pools and click .
View the capacity chart for the pools in a storage system. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click the storage system and click .
- In the navigation menu, click Pools.
- Right-click one or more pools and click .
View the capacity chart for all of the compressed, thin-provisioned, and Easy Tier® volumes. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click one or more volumes that are compressed, or thin-provisioned, or enabled for Easy Tier, and then click .
View the capacity chart for all of the compressed, thin-provisioned, and Easy Tier volumes in the storage system. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click the storage system and click .
- In the navigation menu, click Volumes.
- Right-click one or more volumes that are compressed, or thin-provisioned, or enabled for Easy Tier, and then click .
- Capacity charts for file storage
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Table 2. View capacity charts for file storage Actions Navigation View capacity charts for all of the filesets in a file storage system. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click the storage system and click .
- In the navigation menu, click Filesets.
- Right-click one or more filesets and click .
View the capacity charts for all of the file systems in a file storage system. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click the storage system and click .
- In the navigation menu, click File Systems.
- Right-click one or more file systems and click .
View the capacity charts for all of the file system pools in a file storage system. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click the storage system and click .
- In the navigation menu, click File System Pools.
- Right-click one or more file system pools and click .
- Capacity charts for object storage
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Table 3. View capacity charts for object storage Actions Navigation View the capacity charts for all of the containers in an object storage system. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click the storage system and click .
- In the navigation menu, click Containers.
- Right-click one or more containers and click .
- Capacity charts for tiers
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Table 4. View capacity charts for tiers Actions Navigation View the capacity charts for tiers. - From the menu, click .
- Right-click one or more tiers and click .