Predefined reports listed by package

The data that the predefined reports use is organized into four packages: Capacity and Relationships, Historical Capacity, Performance, and Storage Tiering. Each report uses data from only one package.

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Capacity and Relationships package

You can view the following predefined reports about capacity and relationships:

Availability of Switch Ports: Shows a chart of the 20 switches with the most ports and connected ports, and a table with the properties of the switches.
Capacity of One Group: Shows charts and tables of the capacity, available space, and used space statistics for each type of resource in a group. The report shows separate charts and tables for block-level and file-level resources.
Disks Capacity: Shows a chart of the disk classes with the most allocated space, and a table with space statistics for all disks by class. Use the report to review space allocation in your disks.
File System to Volume Relationships: Shows the end-to-end relationship from file systems on servers to volumes on storage pools. The report shows the usage of space on file systems over a specified period. Use the report to analyze changes in your file system requirements.
File Systems Capacity: Shows the available and used capacity of file systems, which are grouped by server. You can use this report to identify file systems that might be running out of space.
Groups Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 groups with the most capacity, available space, or used space, and a table with details of all groups. Use the report to review the space allocation in your groups.
Hypervisor Data Stores Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 hypervisor data stores with the most allocated space. This report also shows a table with space statistics for all hypervisor data stores. Use the report to review space allocation in your hypervisor data stores.
Hypervisor Disks Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 hypervisor disks with the most allocated space, and a table with space statistics for all hypervisor disks. Use the report to review space allocation in your hypervisor disks.
Hypervisors Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 hypervisors with the most allocated space, and a table with space statistics for all hypervisors. Use the report to review space allocation in your hypervisors.
Managed Disks Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 managed disks with the most available space, and a table with space statistics for all managed disks. Use the report to review space availability in your managed disks.
Pools Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 pools with the most allocated space, and a table with space statistics for all pools. Use the report to review space allocation in your pools.
Server Disks Capacity: Shows the available and used disk space for all disks, which are grouped by server. You can use the report to identify disks that have no allocated space.
Servers Capacity: Shows a summary of the available and used disk space, and the available and used file systems, for servers. Use the report to identify servers that are running out of space.
Storage Resource Relationships Summary: Shows the end-to-end relationship from a server to back-end storage. The report shows servers, hypervisors, NAS, storage systems, storage virtualizers, pools, and volumes.
Storage Resource Relationships Summary (Configurable): Shows the end-to-end relationship from a server to back-end storage. You can configure which resources to show in the report.
Storage Systems Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 storage systems with the most used space, and a table with details of all storage systems. Use the report to review the space allocation in your storage systems.
Volumes Capacity: Shows a chart of the 20 volumes with the most used space, and a table with details of all volumes. Use the report to review the space allocation in your volumes.

Historical Capacity package

You can view the following predefined reports about historical capacity:

Pools Historical Capacity: Shows the usage of space on storage pools over a specified period. Use the report to analyze changes in your storage pool requirements.
Storage Systems Historical Capacity: Shows the usage of space on storage systems over a specified period. Use the report to analyze changes in your storage system requirements.
Volumes Historical Capacity: Shows the usage of space on volumes over a specified period. Use the report to analyze changes in your volume requirements, particularly the increasing usage of space on thin-provisioned volumes.

Performance package

Performance data is collected at intervals. An interval represents the number of minutes over which samples of performance data are averaged. Data that is collected at certain intervals is automatically consolidated, or rolled up, to higher intervals. For example, data collected at 1-minute intervals is consolidated into 5-minute data. When you create a performance report in the Cognos Analytics reporting tool, the smallest interval for the sample data is 5 minutes. The data collected at 1-minute intervals is not available in the Cognos Analytics reporting tool to avoid performance problems.

You can view the following predefined reports about performance:

Compare Performance of Multiple Controllers and Modules: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple controllers or modules over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for controllers or modules that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Disks: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple local disks over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for local disks that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple IO Groups: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple I/O groups over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for I/O groups that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Managed Disks: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple managed disks over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for managed disks that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Nodes: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple nodes over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for nodes that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Pools: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple storage pools over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for storage pools that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Ports: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple ports over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for ports that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Storage Systems: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple storage systems over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple RAID Arrays: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple arrays over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for arrays that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of Multiple Switch Ports: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple switch ports over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for switch ports.
Compare Performance of Multiple Switches: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple switches over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for switches.
Compare Performance of Multiple Volumes: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple volumes over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for volumes that are on storage systems.
Compare Performance of One Pool over Time Ranges: Shows one performance metric on one pool over two time periods. For example, you can use this report to compare the I/O rate for this week and last week.
Compare Performance of One Storage System over Time Ranges: Shows one performance metric on one storage system over two time periods. For example, you can use this report to compare the I/O rate for this week and last week.
Compare Performance of One Switch over Time Ranges: Shows one performance metric on one switch over two time periods. For example, you can use the report to compare the I/O rate for this week and last week.
Compare Performance of One Switch Port over Time Ranges: Shows one performance metric on one switch port over two time periods. For example, you can use this report to compare the I/O rate for this week and last week.
Most Active Controllers or Modules: Shows a chart of the 20 controllers or modules that are most active, and details for all storage systems, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of controllers or modules.
Most Active Disks: Shows a chart of the 20 local disks that are most active, and details for all local disks, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of local disks.
Most Active Host Connections: Shows a chart of the 20 host connections that have the most active volumes. The most active volumes have the greatest aggregate load.
Most Active Hypervisors: Shows a chart of the 20 hypervisors that have the most active volumes. The most active volumes have the greatest aggregate load.
Most Active IO Groups: Shows a chart of the 20 I/O groups that are most active, and details for all I/O groups, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of I/O groups.
Most Active Managed Disks: Shows a chart of the 20 managed disks that are most active, and details for all managed disks, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of managed disks.
Most Active Nodes: Shows a chart of the 20 nodes that are most active, and details for all nodes, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of nodes.
Most Active Pools: Shows a chart of the 20 storage pools that are most active, and details for all pools, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of pools.
Most Active Ports: Shows a chart of the 20 ports that are most active, and details for all ports, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of ports.
Most Active RAID Arrays: Shows up to four performance metrics for multiple arrays over time. Use the report to compare the performance metrics for arrays that are on storage systems.
Most Active Servers: Shows a chart of the 20 servers that have the most active volumes. The most active volumes have the greatest aggregate load.
Most Active Storage Systems: Shows a chart of the 20 storage systems that are most active, and details for all storage systems, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of storage systems.
Most Active Switch Ports: Shows a chart of the 20 switches that are most active, and details for all switches, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of switches.
Most Active Volumes: Shows a chart of the 20 volumes that are most active, and details for all volumes, for a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of volumes.
Performance Data Export: Exports the performance metrics for one or more resources on a storage system to a spreadsheet file in Microsoft Excel file format. Use the report if you want to analyze performance data in Excel or to send performance data to IBM®.
Performance of One Controller or Module: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a controller or module over a time period. Use the report to analyze the performance of a controller or module.
Performance of One Disk: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a local disk over a time period. Use the report to analyze the performance of a local disk.
Performance of One IO Group: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for an I/O group over a time period. Use the report to analyze the performance of an I/O group.
Performance of One Managed Disk: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a managed disk over a time period. Use the report to analyze the performance of a managed disk.
Performance of One Node: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a node over a time period. Use the report to analyze the performance of a node.
Performance of One Pool: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a storage pool over a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of a storage pool.
Performance of One Port: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a port over a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of a port.
Performance of One RAID Array: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a RAID array over a time period. Use the report to analyze the performance of a RAID array.
Performance of One Storage System: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a storage system over a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of a storage system.
Performance of One Switch: Shows three charts, and a table of performance metrics for a switch over a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of a switch.
Performance of One Switch Port: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a switch port. Use this report to view multiple performance metric types on the same chart. For example, you can view I/O rate and response time metrics on the same chart.
Performance of One Volume: Shows four charts, and a table of performance metrics for a volume over a time period that you specify. Use the report to analyze the performance of a volume.
Performance of Volumes by Host Connection: Shows the performance metrics for volumes on a host connection. Use the report to identify the contribution of individual volumes to the load of a particular server in your storage environment.
Performance of Volumes by Hypervisor: Shows the performance metrics for volumes on a hypervisor. Use the report to identify the contribution of individual volumes to the load of a particular hypervisor in your storage environment.
Performance of Volumes by Server: Shows the performance metrics for volumes on a server. Use the report to identify the contribution of individual volumes to the load of a particular server in your storage environment.
Summarized Performance of Volumes by Host Connection: Shows summarized performance metrics for volumes on a host connection. Use the report to identify the aggregate load and the average response time of a particular server.
Summarized Performance of Volumes by Hypervisor: Shows summarized performance metrics for volumes on a hypervisor. Use the report to identify the aggregate load and the average response time of a particular hypervisor.
Summarized Performance of Volumes by Server: Shows summarized performance metrics for volumes on a server. Use the report to identify the aggregate load and the average response time of a particular server.

Storage Tiering package

You can view the following predefined reports about storage tiering:

MDisk Group - VDisk Workload Activity Details: Shows the workload activity of virtual disks (VDisks) in a managed disk (MDisk) group. The workload activity is determined by calculating the average and maximum peak utilization of each VDisk.
MDisk Group Details: Shows the workload activity of a managed disk (MDisk) group. Use the report to analyze storage services for an MDisk group.
MDisk Groups - VDisk Workload Activity: Use this report to monitor the performance of virtual disks (VDisks) in managed disk (MDisk) groups. The workload activity of each MDisk group is determined by calculating the average and the maximum peak utilization of the VDisks in the MDisk group.
MDisk Groups - Workload Activity: Shows the workload activity of managed disk (MDisk) groups. You can use the information that the report provides to investigate which MDisk groups are being underused or overused.
Storage Resource Group - VDisk Workload Activity: Shows the workload activity of virtual disks (VDisks) in storage resource groups. The workload activity is determined by calculating the average and maximum peak utilization of the VDisks in the group.
Storage Resource Group - VDisk Workload Activity Details: Shows the workload activity of virtual disks (VDisks) in storage resource groups. The workload activity is determined by calculating the average and maximum peak utilization of the VDisks in the group.
Storage Virtualizer - VDisk Workload Activity: Shows the workload activity of virtual disks (VDisks) in a storage virtualizer. The workload activity is determined by calculating the average and maximum peak utilization of each VDisk.
VDisk Details: Shows the workload activity of a virtual disk (VDisk) in a managed disk group. Use the report to analyze the performance of a VDisk in a managed disk (MDisk) group.