Backup Executive Summary

Provides an Executive Summary status overview of backup jobs within defined backup windows. You choose the backup window to narrow the scope.

Consecutive Errors By Client

Displays consecutive errors and consecutive days. Use this report to pro-actively manage clients and servers. Consecutive errors may portend hardware reliability issues. Using this template you can identify not only consecutive errors, but also the number of consecutive days that the errors persisted. The default order for this listing is descending order, with the clients having the most consecutive errors listed first. Correlate the number of consecutive errors with the number of consecutive days so that you can disregard errors that appear to be intermittent.

Data Domain Backup Summary

Lists the NetBackup systems that have client backup data. The Data Domain system acts as an external disk pool. Note that LSU (logical storage unit) data is collected every six hours.

Error Log Summary

Lists backup failure details gleaned from backup error logs. Use this report in conjunction with the Consecutive Errors By Client report to mitigate future problems by determining which types of errors occurred with the greatest frequency.

You can customize this summary to report by a specific group: Server (the default), Client or Policy. Some fields do not appear in every Error Log Summary. Each of the three report types—Client, Server, Policy—contain only the fields that make sense for its group.

HP DP Session Summary

Lists HP Data Protector sessions, with drill down access to backup/restore session details. A list of tapes provides drill down access to the Tape Media Detail report.

Job Duration

Combines into one view, a bar chart about both backup and restore duration. If, on a specific day, there were two backup events that completed after one hour and three hours respectively, and one restore completed after .5 hours, the bar reports a duration of 4.5 hours.

You can also report on a single event type:

Job Status Summary

Displays a bar chart aggregating jobs that succeed, fail, or produce warning messages for each time period. It provides drill-down access to the Job Summary report, where you’ll find specific status messages and scheduling information. When you generate this report, several scoping options enable you to narrow the report and also to define how the data is displayed.

Job Summary

Provides details related to the data represented in the bars shown in the Job Status Summary chart. When you generate this report, several options enable you to narrow the scope of the report and also to define how the data will be displayed.

Job Summary by Server

Provides the number of jobs and their status: running, queued, warnings, errors. It displays the number of jobs and their status, for jobs started during the time period that you specified for the report.

Note: Only Symantec NetBackup, EMC NetWorker and CommVault Simpana jobs are supported for this report. Also, the report requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup, all NetWorker or all Simpana hosts/servers in your scope selection.

Correlate the data in this report with the information in the Real Time Library and Drive Status to determine if there are problems with the server. For example, if the Job Summary By Server shows jobs in the queue and the Real Time Library and Drive Status shows available drives, something is preventing the queued jobs from getting to running status.

Job Volume Summary

Displays a bar chart that represents “how much” data has been backed up each day. You can use the information to ascertain problematic time periods, consumption trends, and scheduling peaks. It shows the number of files and amount of data (in KB) backed up for a specified time period. This helps to determine if your scheduling is balanced.

Largest Backup Volume

Displays a pie chart representing a snapshot of the largest backup consumers. Use this report to identify consumers of your most utilized backup volume. A pie chart graphically represents the usage that also is listed in the legend. This report will help you identify greedy hosts and applications.

Monthly Backup Summary

Displays the monthly summary for backup. When selecting the scope for this report, choose Include Master Servers. If you run the report on the Master Servers instead of clients, you can avoid having duplicate jobs in the list, if a client is backed up by two Master Servers.

Running and Queued Job Summary

Displays any job that was running or queued at the time the management servers were polled. Only Symantec NetBackup and EMC NetWorker jobs are supported for this report. Also, the report requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup or all NetWorker in your host group scope selection. For NetWorker, this report is titled, Running Save Sets Summary.

Jobs that require attention (long-running, stalled, or slow jobs) will be highlighted in red and moved to the top of the running and queued jobs list so that they are quickly noted by administrators and handled appropriately. Each of these flagged jobs will be accompanied by one or more icons to indicate the type of potential problem.

Avamar Grid Capacity Dashboard

Displays a unified historical view of the storage and de-duplication trends of the Avamar grids. The graph represents the total usage and capacity for all disks on the host for the point in time. The Capacity Utilization and Forecast report is derived from the node disk utilization.

Client Job Histogram

Displays either Job Throughput or Job Activity based on your preference. Use these reports to identify bottlenecks. The Job Throughput Histogram provides colored visual cues for quickly determining the backup throughput trends for clients that had backup jobs within the previous 24 hours. This report shows completed jobs that started within the selected time period. The Job Activity Histogram lists clients that had backup jobs within the previous 24 hours. The colored cells enable you to quickly determine the activity per client. The report shows the number of completed jobs that started within the selected time period.

Client Protection Summary

Identifies exposure and threats to an enterprise data protection environment. This report is NetBackup-specific. The Client Protection Report provides a single-pane view of the protection status for the list of clients or servers.

With the Discovery module, you can use the Client Protection Report Designer to customize and personalize a Client Protection Summary that will identify exposure and threats to an enterprise data protection environment.

Command Center Dashboard

Displays a dashboard view of Real Time Job Summary, Real Time Library and Drive Status, Real Time Storage Unit Utilization, and Running and Queued Jobs Summary. Note: Only Symantec NetBackup and EMC NetWorker jobs are supported for this dashboard. Also, the dashboard requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup or all Networker hosts in your scope selection.

Data Domain Replication History

Use this report to determine which destinations are being replicated. The values shown in the report are derived from cumulative statistics since the replication context was created. The remaining pre-compression (pre-comp) value, relevant for directory replication only, represents the sum of the sizes of the files yet to be replicated. Note that this value includes the entire logical size of the current file that is being replicated. For very large files, this may take some time and the remaining pre-comp value will only update once the current file replication completes. The compression factor is derived from replicated pre-comp divided by replicated
post-comp.

Data Domain Snapshot History

Lists Data Domain Snapshots with relevant retention details. Snapshots listed for each Data Domain system provide insight into retention policies. Note that expired snapshots remain available until the next filesystem clean operation.

Data Domain System Performance

Displays graphs that provide CPU, filesystem, and disk busy performance metrics. Monitor these performance statistics to assess the percentage of time that all disks in Data Domain systems are busy. You can hover your mouse over data points on the chart to view specific values.

Data Protection Dashboard

Displays a dashboard view of several reports: Message of the Day, Job Status Summary, Mission Control report, and Monthly Backup Summary. In the scope selector, in addition to specifying a time period, you also can choose to omit backup retries.

Mission Control

Provides a snapshot of backup/restore event status, with easily identifiable indicators of success/failure and you can drill downs to details.Using this report, you can easily identify servers that have not had backups or failed backups. Drill down to ascertain the root cause of unsuccessful backups. Organizations use this report to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, as it shows ultimate backup success over time.

Operations Dashboard

Displays a dashboard view of Job Status Summary, Current Media Summary, Largest Backup Volume, and Storage Unit Summary. The reports displayed in this dashboard are dependent on the type of backup system selected in the report scope. For example, the Storage Unit Summary is relevant only for NetBackup servers. Note that in the Storage Unit Summary, used and free values of Unknown indicate the Discovery module has not been configured to probe the media servers’ file systems for their physical characteristics.

TSM Storage Pools Dashboard

Displays a real-time view into capacity and process status information for the selected list of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Pools. In a single pane, you quickly can analyze capacity and process status information for each of the Storage Pools. The Storage Pool Capacity pie chart displays the percentage and GBytes used and available for the Storage Pool. The GBytes Used is calculated by multiplying the percentage used by the estimated capacity of the Storage Pool.

Current Media Summary

Displays pie charts illustrating a real-time snapshot of all the media utilized by the hosts within the report scope. The Current Media Summary provides an at-a-glance view of the status of the media associated with each of your backup solutions. The pie charts and legends in this report provide drill down access to the Tape Media Summary report. The status types vary for each pie chart because they are directly related to the specific backup solution. For example, NetBackup reports expired tapes, while NetWorker indicates which tapes can be recycled. You can hold your mouse over any of the pie chart sections and a pop-up will display details about the media of the corresponding status. Similar information is reflected in the chart legend.

Data Domain VTL Errors

Displays a summary of error statistics for all virtual tape libraries (VTL) in a Data Domain system. The number of soft and hard errors per VTL are listed. Soft errors represent errors from which the system recovered, so additional actions are not required. No preventative measures or maintenance actions are necessary. The main reason to monitor soft errors is to ensure that performance is not being impacted by a large number of soft errors. Hard errors, on the other hand, indicate more serious issues and the system could not recover from them. These errors typically require user intervention. View the Data Domain logs to determine an appropriate action.

Data Domain VTL Media Summary

Displays a summary list of media, enabling an overview of the tapes in use by one or more Data Domain systems. The media IDs (otherwise known as barcodes) identify a tape associated with a Data Domain system. In addition, the pool indicates whether the tape is in a user-created pool or the default pool. Likewise, the location indicates if the tapes are in a user-created library or in the virtual vault. Use the Available columns to determine the amount of unused space on each virtual tape, as well as a total of all available tape space.

Data Domain VTL Performance

Contains graphs that represent statistics for all drives in the Data Domain VTL: Reads Mb/sec, Writes Mb/sec, Operations/sec. In addition to library configuration details, such as number of drives and slots, bar charts provide an at-a-glance view of virtual tape library (VTL) performance for each library. Click sections of the bar charts to drill down to Data Domain filesystem status details, relevant to the read/write performance statistics.

Tape Media Summary

Displays a summary of Tape Media usage. This report does not display Backup Exec media data.

Depending on your environment, this report listing can get rather long, so you may want to narrow the report’s scope. When you generate the report, you can limit the output using the following parameter choices:

Backup Duration SLA

Displays the total number of backups that completed within the specific time range. The information is displayed in bar chart. Best practices for report generation:

Backup Start Time SLA

Displays the total number of backups that began within a specific time range of their scheduled start time. This report can only be used for NetBackup, Backup Exec, and TSM start time SLAs. Use this report to determine what proportion of backups started at their scheduled time, or were delayed and by how long. If jobs are consistently missing their targeted start times, you may need to investigate the feasibility of your current schedule. A delay could be the result of other jobs taking too long or possibly because there are no drives available.

Backup Status SLA

Represents the success and failure performance of the backup status SLA. Use the Backup Status SLA report to determine backup success performance and to identify backup failures. A typical backup success percentage might be 85%, as indicated by the Successful Backups Goal line shown in the bar chart. You can drill down into any failed job to identify the cause of the failure.

Data Domain Disk Performance

Displays cumulative throughput for all disks in the Data Domain system. This report displays the average throughput for all disks in the Data Domain system along with the average disk busy statistics. These statistics are averaged over time, since the last “disk re-set performance” command or since the last system power-up cycle.

Data Domain Filesystem Compression

Displays a bar chart that displays file system compression statistics. Use this report to view a bar chart of the last day’s (24 hours) compression statistics, both data sent before compression and also the actual physical space used. These statistics provide insight into how well compression is working during that time period.

Data Domain System Summary

Lists a summary of the Data Domain systems. Use this report to monitor Data Domain system capacities to determine the amount available for data storage. The capacity and used values are derived from Data Domain filesystem data, while virtual tape library (VTL) values represent the totals for all VTLs and tapes in the system.

Disk Usage & Performance

Displays bar charts representing backup volume and throughput. Pie charts represent storage consumption. This is a NetBackup-only report. Click a pie slice or a bar to drill down to the associated NetBackup storage unit event details. When reporting on long time periods, use the Group By option in the Report Designer to render the bar charts in a more usable format. The data can be grouped by days, weeks, months, quarters, and years.

Drive Performance Summary

Provides a high-level view of drive performance statistics. It lists all the backup events that took place on that drive for the time period that you specified in the scope selector. Additionally, the min, max, and avg KBytes/Sec for the time period are provided at the bottom of the report. This report does not display Symantec Backup Exec information.

Drive Utilization & Performance

Displays bar charts of drive activity. The report enables you to view and compare utilization and performance of the tape drives in your environment. By viewing the total aggregate throughput per drive, you can use this information to help you tune your backup policies. Note: This report does not display data from HP Data Protector or Symantec Backup Exec.

NetBackup Deduplication Effect

Provides a graphical representation of the deduplication effect, both scanned and protected. It enables you to see the benefits of deduplication. When reporting on long time periods, use the Group By option in the Report Designer to render the bar charts in a more usable format. The data can be grouped by days, weeks, months, quarters, and years.

NetBackup Deduplication Savings

Provides a graphical representation of the deduplication savings. Use this report to quickly validate how much storage has been saved because of deduplication. The graph displays the difference between the total data scanned and the total stored.

Real Time Library and Drive Status

Displays high-level detail of tape libraries in your storage environment. Use this report to monitor the health of each library. This report displays current high-level information for each tape library in your environment. The data will only be as current as the time of the most recent poll of your management server(s).

Only Symantec NetBackup and EMC NetWorker jobs are supported for this report. Also, the report requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup or all NetWorker in your host group scope selection.

Storage Unit Detail

Displays storage unit event details. The Storage Unit Detail report provides a comprehensive view of all tape media in each tape library, groups of tape media outside the libraries, and capacity and usage information for disk storage unit file systems. This report does not display data from HP Data Protector or Symantec Backup Exec.

Storage Unit Summary

Provides library and file system details for NetBackup storage units. This report is NetBackup-specific. Only the first four tape libraries are displayed.

Tape Library & Drive Utilization

Displays a bar chart of the average drive utilization against the actual drive utilization for any given time period. Often, this report is used to justify VTL purchases. Identify how many tape drives are writing and for how long. In addition, the Drive Utilization & Performance Report provides insight into the throughput, with drilldowns to drive performance. This report does not display data from HP Data Protector or Symantec Backup Exec.

TSM Database Utilization

Displays the usage and capacity trending of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager database. Using this report, you can determine how much of the allocated database space has been used over the selected report period. Each bar shows the average amount of time the library drive(s) are being utilized stacked against the actual amount of utilization time.

TSM Recovery Log Utilization

Displays IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Log usage—both the maximum used and the available capacity. The TSM Recovery Log contains transactions prior to TSM committing them to the database. Use this report to monitor the size of the log to prevent degradation on the TSM server.

The data can be displayed either as a bar chart or a tabular report.

Data Domain Filesystem Capacity & Forecast

Displays the total physical disk space, after de-duplication and compression, available for data storage. You can set your scope selection from the following:

Library Capacity Forecast

Displays a bar chart of NetBackup tape library usage and forecast. This report can display either a bar chart view or a tabular report of library capacity, current usage, and forecasted usage. Note that in the bar chart, the yellow line represents estimated library capacity.

Media Availability Forecast

Displays bar chart forecasting consumption versus available media.This report is NetBackup-specific. The system calculates the forecasted consumption by the close of each day, using the following algorithm:

(previous day’s availability + forecasted media expiration - forecasted consumption)

Media Consumption Forecast

Displays a bar chart representing historical tape usage with a projection of future needs. You can select report periods ranging from one week to eight weeks of data. In addition, you can narrow the report scope by choosing specific host groups or even host within a group.

To forecast the seven days of usage, the report averages day-of-the-week consumption data for a historical period specified in the time period.

Media Forecasting Dashboard

Displays bar charts, pie charts, and tables representing forecasted consumption. The report displays 14 Days of historical consumption and 7 days of forecasted consumption. This report is NetBackup-specific. Using this dashboard, you can pro-actively manage tape availability.

Scratch Pool Forecast

Displays a bar chart of available and forecasted scratch pool storage. A scratch pool is a repository of media that is available to backup servers. Backup success is tied directly to scratch pools. This report does not display data from HP Data Protector or Symantec Backup Exec.The following may affect the availability of media in a scratch pool:

The current day is treated as the future for the purpose of forecasting.

Tape Drive Usage & Forecast

A bar chart shows maximum/average used, with maximum/average forecasted. This report does not display data from HP Data Protector or Symantec Backup Exec.

Use this report to determine if and when you need to add more tape drives to your libraries. When you customize this report, if you enter a date range in the past, the report will include historical usage information. If your date range includes a finish date beyond the current day, the report will include forecast estimates. The current day is treated as the future for the purpose of forecasting.

Billing & Chargeback Summary

Displays a table of usage and billing details by host. If the scope of this report is for NetBackup-only host groups, three additional columns will be included: Total Dup (GB), Cost Per Dup’d GB, and Dup’d Usage Cost GB, which are set in the Billing and Usage Policies.

Server Consumption Summary

Displays consumption details by server. If you are in a large enterprise, this table can get unwieldy, so consider modifying the scope to filter the data by group. By default, the report lists clients in descending consumption order, with the heaviest consumer at the top.

The following algorithm determines total consumption: total disk backup + total tape backup = total consumption

You can sort the data by Tape Backup or Disk Backup to identify heaviest storage device consumers.

Avamar Groups

Lists Avamar groups with retention policies and schedules. An Avamar Group provides the mechanism for applying a set of backup rules to a collection of clients. Backups are scheduled to run automatically, using the group specifications. Groups contain a dataset, a schedule, and a retention policy which comprise the backup policy for all members (clients) of the group. Each client that is to be backed up must be a member of at least one group; therefore, a Default Group provides a policy when a client has not been assigned to a more specific policy.

This report lists the groups defined on the selected Avamar servers.

CommVault Simpana Policies

Provides a summary view of CommVault Simpana policies and policy details. A CommVault Policy provides the mechanism for applying a set of backup rules to a collection of clients.

HP DP Backup Specification

Lists HP Data Protector summary specifications, with drill downs to details. The HP Data Protector report lists the Backup Specification, with the objects that are backed up, the servers and the next time the backup will be performed. Note that the objects can be entire disks or volumes, or sub-sets of these, such as directories or the Windows Registry.

NetBackup Policies

Lists NetBackup policies, with drill downs to details. The Policy Details include not only a list of clients covered by the policy, but also the scheduling details. Often the list of clients is long, so you need to scroll to the bottom of the report to see the scheduling details.

NetWorker Groups

Displays NetWorker groups, with drilldowns to details. EMC NetWorker provides a group resource to automate backups on a group-by-group basis. By setting up groups, you can manage the load on backup servers.

TSM Policy Domains

Lists TSM policy domains, with drilldowns to details. This report is specific to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Use this report to verify the schedules associated with a policy domain, as well as which client nodes are covered by a policy domain. You can click the Domain Name hyperlink to access policy domain details where you'll see policy sets. A Policy Set is an object that contains a group of management class definitions that exist for a policy domain. Several policy sets can exist within a policy domain, but only one policy set can be active at a time.

Array Capacity & Utilization

Provides an overview of storage array capacity and utilization. Use this report to identify under or over-utilized storage arrays. Several versions of this report display data relevant to the type of storage, with drill down links to the relevant details:

Array Executive Summary

Offers a single view of physical storage. From an asset management perspective, this executive summary provides instant visibility into how much physical storage is owned, how much has been allocated for use, and how much remains for future use. Because IBM SVC arrays serve as back-end storage, they are not included in this report of raw, physical capacity. In this report, the following definitions apply:

Array Port Utilization

Lists the physical/logical port connections between the host’s HBA and the storage array. Use this report to troubleshoot connectivity issues and to re-configure when hosts/arrays are taken out of service. This report provides information you can use to manage load-balancing across array ports.

Capacity Planning Summary

Provides a graphical representation of the allocated capacity by array and could also show an aggregated grouping by an attribute, for example, business unit. A summary chart includes bars representing the allocated capacity for all arrays or attributes in the report’s scope, followed by individual charts displaying used and unused capacity for each array/attribute. This report can provide an at-a-glance view for department capacity planning.

The report relies on historical chargeback data, so a number of prerequisites must be in place for relevant data to be available.

EMC Isilon Disks

Shows Isilon physical disks and associated capacity and other attributes affiliated with an Isilon disk. This report lists Isilon disk details providing Unified Visibility and supporting Capacity Planning and Utilization/Optimization.

EMC Isilon HDFS Racks

Lists Isilon Hadoop File Systems (HDFS) and associated IP addresses and pools. This report lists Isilon HDFS details providing Unified Visibility and supporting Capacity Planning and Utilization/Optimization.

EMC Isilon License Detail

Provides the per-module license status.

EMC Isilon NFS Exports

Lists Isilon NFS Exports and associated attributes. Use this report to list Isilon NFS Exports, enabling Unified Visibility, Capacity Planning, and Utilization/Optimization.

EMC Isilon Nodes

Lists Isilon Node capacities and associated attributes. Use this report to list Isilon Nodes, enabling Unified Visibility, Capacity Planning, and Utilization/Optimization.

EMC Isilon SMB Share Summary

Lists Isilon Server Message Block (CIFS) shares and associated attributes. This report provides Unified Visibility and supports Capacity Planning and Utilization/Optimization.

EMC VNX (Celerra) Data Mover Summary

Lists EMC VNX (Celerra) Data Mover performance statistics and provides an option to graph the statistics. Both primary and standby virtual data movers are listed in this report, with CPU and memory utilization statistics. You can click the Storage Array link to view the EMC VNX (Celerra) Storage System Details.

EMC VNX (Celerra) File System Summary

Lists EMC VNX (Celerra) File System retention details and capacity usage data. Each file system is listed with storage usage, auto extend, and deduplication details. Links within the report enable access to storage system, volume, and storage pool details. Choose a file system type to narrow the scope of the report: uxfs, rawfs, mirrorfs, chpt, mgfs, group, or nested.

EMC VNX (Celerra) SnapSure Summary

Lists EMC VNX (Celerra) SnapSure capacity usage along with configuration details that provide insight for replication checkpoint management. Use this report to examine related capacity usage. Production file systems are listed with their associated SavVol and Checkpoint usage statistics. Hyperlinks in the report provide access to the file system summary, volume summary, and storage system details.

EMC VNX (Celerra) Storage Pools Summary

Lists EMC VNX (Celerra) Storage Pool configurations and capacity usage data. Both physical and virtual storage usage statistics are listed for each storage pool, enabling visibility into actual storage consumption. The virtual storage values characterize how thin-provisioned storage is being used. Hyperlinks within this report provide access to additional storage pool details along with file system and volume summaries.

EMC VNX (Celerra) Tree Summary

Lists EMC VNX (Celerra) Tree quota and capacity usage details. Hard and soft limits, along with capacity usage, offer insight into the Celerra quota tree usage.

EMC VNX (Celerra) Volume Summary

Lists EMC VNX (Celerra) Volume configurations and types (slice, strip, meta, disk, and pool) along with relevant capacity usage data. This report lends itself to alert configuration so that you can be notified when available capacity is nearing depletion. Links within the report provide access to the volume usage details.

Hitachi NAS CIFS Share Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Common Internet File System (CIFS) shares exports to hosts. There will be a line item for each share in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS Disk Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS disks discovered as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each disk in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS EVS Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Enterprise Virtual Servers (EVS) discovered as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each EVS in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible. Each HNAS Cluster can have multiple EVS depending on the amount of front-end connectivity required.

Hitachi NAS Ethernet Port Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Ethernet ports discovered as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each Ethernet port in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS File System Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS filesystems discovered as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each filesystem in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS NFS Export Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Network File System (NFS) exported to hosts as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each NFS Export in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS Snapshot Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS snapshots of filesystem as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each snapshot in the scope of the report relating the snapshot and its capacity to the source filesystem. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS Storage Pool Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Storage Pools as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each Storage Pool in the scope of the report describing the capacities and relating to filesystems defined. Multiple filers are possible.

Hitachi NAS Storage Server Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Storage Servers configured as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each Storage Server in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible. Each Cluster can have multiple Storage Servers that manage the block storage.

Hitachi NAS System Drive Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS System Drives (SD) configured as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each SD in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible. System Drives are special drives required in each Cluster for internal purposes only.

Hitachi NAS Tier Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Tiers configured as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each Tier in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible. Each Storage Pool can have up to 3 different types of Drives configured, each representing a unique Tier.

Hitachi NAS Virtual Volume Summary

Lists all of the Hitachi NAS Virtual Volumes (VV) configured as of the last data collection cycle. There will be a line item for each VV in the scope of the report. Multiple filers are possible. Virtual Volumes are allocated from File Systems and appear to Clients as a normal File System.

IBM Array Site Summary

Displays a tabular list of Array Site configurations and capacity. Four or eight disk drive modules comprise an Array Site and one or two Array Sites comprise an Array. An Array is an Array Site that has been formatted to a specific RAID format.

Note: Capacity values for IBM arrays may appear different from what is reported by the IBM CLI or IBM Tools, as IBM uses a decimal gigabyte—10^9 bytes, while APTARE StorageConsole uses 1024 for a KiB when converting to GiB.

For FB open systems hosts, an extent is 1 GB. For CKD IBM zSeries or S/390 systems, an extent is 1 cylinder (.92 GB).

IBM Array Summary

Displays a tabular list of IBM Array configurations and capacity. Capacity values for IBM arrays may appear differently from what is reported by the IBM CLI or IBM Tools, as IBM uses a decimal gigabyte—10^9 bytes, while APTARE StorageConsole uses 1024 for a KiB when converting to GiB.

For FB open systems hosts, an extent is 1 GB. For CKD IBM zSeries or S/390 systems, an extent is 1 cylinder (.92 GB).

IBM Disk Summary

Displays a tabular list of disks within IBM Storage Arrays, with configuration and capacity details. In the scope selector, you can narrow the report output by selecting values for the following criteria:

IBM Extent Pool Summary

Displays a tabular list of IBM Extent Pools, with configuration and capacity details. Capacity values for IBM arrays may appear differently from what is reported by the IBM CLI or IBM Tools, as IBM uses a decimal gigabyte—10^9 bytes, while APTARE StorageConsole uses 1024 for a KiB when converting to GiB.

For FB open systems hosts, an extent is 1 GB. For CKD IBM zSeries or S/390 systems, an extent is 1 cylinder (.92 GB).

IBM Rank Summary

Displays a tabular list of IBM Array Ranks, with configuration and capacity details. An IBM Rank is logical storage, enabling storage provisioning that is not constrained by the size of an array. One or more arrays comprise an IBM Rank, forming logically contiguous storage. Note that IBM often refers to Arrays as RAID Arrays.

IBM XIV Consistency Groups Summary

Lists IBM XIV Consistency Groups with usage and status. At first glance, it may appear that APTARE StorageConsole capacity values differ from values shown by other reporting software.

APTARE StorageConsole represents capacity values in MB/GB/TB based on: 210/220/230

Some other software, such as IBM XIV Storage Systems software, reports capacity values in MB/GB/TB based on: 106/109/1012

For example, a volume reported by IBM XIV Storage Systems with a size of 17 GB (17 * 220) will appear in APTARE StorageConsole as: 16 GB (16 * 109)

IBM XIV Storage Pools Summary

Lists IBM XIV Storage Pools with usage and status. The XIV Storage Pools Summary report provides a view of IBM XIV storage pool consumption, including a hard and soft status indicators to draw attention to when physical and logical capacity has been over-provisioned are reaching capacity limits. For example, for growing LUNs, 30% utilized may not be considered to be over-provisioned. However, over time, it may warrant a second look to determine a more efficient approach to storage allocation.

At first glance, it may appear that APTARE StorageConsole capacity values differ from values shown by other reporting software.

APTARE StorageConsole represents capacity values in MB/GB/TB based on: 210/220/230

Some other software, such as IBM XIV Storage Systems software, reports capacity values in MB/GB/TB based on: 106/109/1012

For example, a volume reported by IBM XIV Storage Systems with a size of 17 GB (17 * 220) will appear in APTARE StorageConsole as: 16 GB (16 * 109)

LUN Utilization Summary

Provides a view to all the LUN mapping details, such as mount points and file systems. If LUNs are not being used efficiently, you want to know so that you can change their allocation or reassign them altogether. If LUNs are not being used efficiently, you want to know so that you can change their size or reassign them altogether. View all the LUN mapping details, such as mount points and file systems. This report can be filtered to display the following subsets of LUN data:

NetApp Aggregate Summary

Displays how physical aggregates are configured to manage disks, RAID groups, and plexes. The Aggregate Utilization Summary displays one row for each aggregate, with links to Volume and Plex details. Note that if the aggregate is mirrored, two Plexes will be listed.

NetApp CIFS Summary

Lists the volumes that have been exported to Windows hosts through CIFS (Common Internet File System) shares. This report displays the usage of each share. From this report, you can access additional volume, QTree, and NetApp storage system details.

NetApp Disk Summary

Lists the disks within a storage system.This report can be filtered by RAID states: partner, broken, zeroing, spare, copy, pending, reconstructing, and present. Additional filtering can be achieved by selecting a specific disk types: ATA, EATA, FCAL, LUN, SAS, SATA, SCSI, XATA, XSAS, or unknown.

NetApp NFS Summary

Lists the NetApp volumes that are exported through the Network File System (NFS) protocol. Using this report, you can identify who is using the NFS shares, with access to the NetApp storage system and volume details.

NetApp QTree Summary

Displays a summary of the quota management configurations. A QTree is the mechanism used to partition a volume, enabling the management of storage by project, user, or group. Use this QTree Summary to view the quota management configurations for the QTrees within a storage system. You can drill down to view how each volume is partitioned.

NetApp Snapshot Summary

Lists snapshot details for the report’s time interval. NetApp snapshots use pointers to reference the blocks where the data is stored, thereby using a minimal amount of capacity. A snapshot captures a point-in-time image of the file system data. When the next snapshot is taken, the pointers will reference other blocks, as the file system data blocks have changed in the interval between snapshots. Therefore, the access time provides the time reference for the snapshot block usage. Snapshots provide a read-only source of data for backups to tape.

NetApp Volume Summary

Displays a summary of the logical volume with links to the associated QTree, LUN, and Snapshot details. Each volume depends on its aggregate for its physical storage. Both Traditional and FlexVol volumes contain directories and files; they also can contain QTrees and LUNs.

Capacity Planning Summary

Provides a graphical representation of the allocated capacity by Host Group or some other aggregated grouping (by attribute), for example, business unit. A summary chart includes bars representing the allocated capacity for all host groups in the report’s scope, followed by individual charts displaying used and unused capacity for each host group. Often, host groups are configured to represent departments in an organization, so this report can provide an at-a-glance view for department capacity planning. The report relies on historical chargeback data, so a number of pre-requisites must be in place for relevant data to be available.

Host Capacity & Utilization

Displays an overview of host utilization. You can drill down to details in the Host Utilization Detail report. Use the Host Capacity and Utilization report to view an overview of host utilization to determine if there’s contention for storage. Typically, once you review this high-level report, you’ll want to access the details reported by the Host Utilization Detail.

Host Executive Summary

Provides a single view of hosts’ thick and thin storage usage by operating system. In this report, the following definitions apply:

Host HBA Summary

Lists Host Bus Adapter (HBA) details for specific hosts. Use this report to verify that versions are up-to-date.

EMC Symmetrix Thin Pool Summary

This tabular display of Symmetrix thin-provisioned storage pools, includes capacity usage and over-subscription data. Use this report to stay on top of storage pool capacity subscription and usage for all storage pools. The hyperlinks enable drill down to the LUN Utilization Summary for all associated devices and also for the enabled devices in a storage pool.

EMC VNX (CLARiiON) Thin Pool Summary

This tabular display of CLARiiON thin-provisioned storage pools includes capacity usage and over-subscription data. This report lends itself to alert configuration so that you can be notified about capacity over-subscription. User capacity represents the physical capacity that’s available to all LUNs in the storage pool; also known as usable capacity or host-visible capacity. Consumed capacity is the physical capacity that is assigned to all LUNs in the storage pool. From the array’s perspective, consumed capacity is the same as allocated capacity. Note that the thin LUNs contain the capacity that is visible to hosts (applications); this capacity typically is greater than the actual because it is from the host’s perspective and is the subscribed capacity total.

Hitachi Disk Summary

Lists disk device details including capacity, vendor, serial number, model and firmware version. Use this report to determine how disks within an array are being used. This offers the physical view of the storage capacity.

Hitachi DP Pool Summary

Displays a summary report of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Pool with capacity and threshold details. The Dynamic Provisioning Pool uses virtual volumes for data storage, with actual capacity available upon request to a host writing to LUN storage. Use this report to ensure that your pool always has sufficient free capacity, enabling on-demand provisioning to hosts.

Hitachi DP Pool Utilization

Displays a bar chart of dynamic provisioning consumption.This dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of dynamically provisioned storage, enabling insight into potential exposure, as well as, storage that may be reclaimable.

HP 3PAR Common Provisioning Group (CPG)

Several fields in this report lend themselves to configuring alerts: Allocation and Growth Warnings. The Allocation Warning represents a user-defined threshold that can be set for Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volumes (TPVVs) and Commonly Provisioned Virtual Volumes (CPVVs) to alert users when they reach a certain size. The Growth Warning represents a user-defined threshold that can be set for Common Provisioning Groups (CPGs) to alert users when they reach a certain size. Growth warning is defined as: Growth Limit - (Allocation Warning * TotalManagedSpace)/100.

Array Capacity Forecast

Enables you to project growth in storage usage. You can generate the report by the following criteria:

EMC Symmetrix Thin Pool Capacity Forecast

Displays charts that provide an at-a-glance view of pool capacity, consumption, and subscription trends. You can quickly assess if EMC Symmetrix subscribed storage is close to exceeding physical capacity. Note that because the rendering of charts consumes memory resources, it is recommended that you manage the scope of this report with the following parameters:

Reducing the time period also enables a more focused view of thin-provisioned storage usage and forecast for multiple thin pools.

EMC VNX (CLARiiON) Thin Pool Capacity Forecast

Provides charts for an at-a-glance view of pool capacity, consumption, and subscription trends. View this report to quickly assess if EMC VNX CLARiiON subscribed storage is close to exceeding physical capacity. Note that because the rendering of charts consumes memory resources, it is recommended that you manage the scope of this report by:

Reducing the Time Period also enables a more focused view of thin-provisioned storage usage and forecast for multiple thin pools.

Hitachi NAS Storage Pool Capacity Over Time

Provides an at-a-glance history of allocated and total capacity.

Host Capacity Forecast

Provides an at-a-glance overview of historical and predicted usage—from the host’s perspective. You can narrow the scope of this report by specifying a storage type filter of: SAN, DAS, or NAS. Note: To ensure that your report reflects both historical and forecasted usage, when you generate the report, verify that your date range starts on a past date and ends on a future date. The current day is treated as the future for the purpose of forecasting. Typically, if you specify three months before and after the current day, you’ll have sufficient data for a valid forecast.

Host Storage Usage Over Time

Line charts, aggregated by Host Groups or Arrays, and grouped by a configurable time period, showing allocated capacity over time.

Host Volume Growth and Forecast

Host perspective listing all discovered file systems, capacities, growth rates and projected out-of-space conditions.

Allocated but Undiscovered LUNs

Often referred to as orphaned LUNs, these are LUNs that have been assigned to a host, but they have not been discovered and therefore are not seen on the host side. The array has created the LUN and the storage path exists, but there is no access to host port and host information, such as disks, partitions, and volume groups. To make these LUNs visible to the host, a system administrator must execute a LUN scan or, for older OS and volume manager versions, re-boot the system. Otherwise, this storage is not available for mounting filesystems. The LUN scan tells the HBA (host bus adapter) that a LUN has been zoned to the host.

For HP 3PAR: LUNs refer to Virtual Volumes and Volume Groups refer to Common Provisioning Groups.

Allocated but Unused LUNs

Displays LUNs that are assigned to a host, but the host has not been placed into a volume group, or a partition has not been created. The array has created the LUN and the storage path exists, making the host and host port information available. However, the host storage details—disks, partitions, and volume groups—are not available for the host associated with the storage path.

For HP 3PAR: LUNs refer to Virtual Volumes and Volume Groups refer to Common Provisioning Groups.

Array Utilization Dashboard

Displays a dashboard of bar charts and tables that provide capacity and usage details, enabling a quick glance of potential reclaimable storage. The Usable capacity values show a summary of overall array storage consumption from various viewpoints: virtual, internal, external, used, and free. Likewise, the chargeback policy list breaks out capacity usage to help you determine if you have full coverage for your chargeback policies. As a prerequisite for this report, capacity chargeback policies must be configured.

Array Utilization Summary

Displays a summary listing of each array’s capacity and usage. This report identifies the percentage of raw storage allocated to RAID groups and, more importantly, the percentage of raw capacity that is available. Displays a summary listing of each array’s capacity and usage.

Reclamation Summary

Lists possible SAN storage reclamation. This report enables you to visualize all possible storage types that potentially could be reclaimed. The Areas of Reclamation charts provide drilldowns to relevant details. A pie chart illustrates potential reclamation categories.

Suspected De-provisioned Hosts

Lists hosts that are candidates for re-assignment. Storage often is allocated from a storage array and provisioned to a host, but when that host is re-assigned or de-provisioned, the storage remains unused. This report identifies suspected de-provisioned hosts by determining data staleness—that is, finding hosts for which data has not been collected within the specified time period. The default period is 14 days, however, you can choose from 3 days to a year for the report’s time period. Hosts in this list deserve further investigation to determine if they truly have been de-provisioned. Often when hosts are retired, their storage is not given back to the pool and that storage remains unused.

Unallocated LUNs

Lists LUNs that are not allocated to any hosts. The array has created the LUNs, but there are no storage paths. For HP 3PAR: This report refers to Virtual Volumes (VVs). Mount point, file system, and host details offer a starting point for identifying reclaimable storage.

Unused Disks/Volume Groups

Provides insight into wasted space on hosts. It displays the total volume group and disk capacity, along with used and available capacity. This report provides a list of hosts that have available space. These hosts have space from which more partitions or logical volumes can be created. This report can be used to identify storage that has been requested, but that is not being used. In this report, if the RAID type = 1, the capacity is divided by 2, to reflect true usable capacity.

For HP 3PAR, volume groups refer to Common Provisioning Groups.

Unused Partitions/Logical Volumes

Lists all hosts with logical volumes that have no mounted file systems. A logical volume may have been created in the volume group, but the logical volume is not being used by the host. These unused volumes provide available storage

Array Performance by RAID Group

Provides array performance reported by RAID group. Array performance statistics can be collected and compared with periodic internal profiles or with a broader community of collected statistics.

NOTE: For CLARiiON arrays, a LUN that is assigned to a Pool (as is required for dynamic provisioning) will not have any performance statistics collected.

NOTE: HP 3PAR arrays are represented uniquely with each Common Provisioning Group (CPG) represented as a RAID Group. Virtual volumes (VV) can be allocated directly, outside of a CPG with each VV being represented as an individual RAID Group.

EMC VNX (Celerra) Data Mover Performance

Displays graphs that illustrate CPU utilization and memory use. Mouse over the graph symbols to view the actual plotted values. This report also can be accessed via the charting option in the EMC VNX (Celerra) Data Mover Summary report.

Mission Control

Mission Control performance analysis provides end-to-end mapping of volume and port performance back to hosts. Array performance indicators are displayed for each day in the report’s time period:

You can click any host name to view the Host Utilization Details.

The arrow in front of a host to expand the list of LUNs and their associated performance statistics for all intervals in the report’s scope.

NOTE: For CLARiiON arrays, a LUN that is assigned to a Pool (as is required for dynamic provisioning) will not have any performance statistics collected.

Performance Profiles

Lists array families with collected performance statistics. Performance profiling establishes criteria for deriving a LUN’s performance state, as part of future APTARE StorageConsole reporting. The criteria is established based on actual performance metrics captured from each LUN. Reads and writes are treated independently. Performance profiles are used to characterize response times, I/Os per second, MBs per second, and cache hits per second as Poor, Normal, and Fast.

Port Throughput by Array

Lists array port performance statistics. In addition to the tabular list of performance metrics, a check box for each port enables graphing of the collected throughput statistics and comparisons among ports.

Application Executive Summary (SAN)

Provides an overview of SAN-attached storage used by supported applications—including thick and thin SAN storage consumption—from the applications’ point of view. If your environment uses both SAN and DAS, or just DAS, see the Application Storage Dashboard for a combined SAN and DAS perspective. In this report, the following definitions apply:

Application Storage Dashboard

Interrogates the application to identify what storage is free. The table has three main sections of information: Application Storage, File System Storage, and Array Storage. Expand the application row to view details. Hosts that are using capacity are listed under each application, when you click the arrow to expand the list. The applications that can be configured for data collection, via host inventory probes, are MS Exchange, Oracle Database, and SQL Server.

Applications at Risk

Identifies applications that are at risk of running out of storage space. You can see which applications are expected to run out of storage and when. The report supports: SQL Server, MS Exchange, and Oracle Database. Application data collection can be configured by enabling host probes. If a threshold has been set for a particular application—that is, a database threshold—then that threshold is used to determine the risk. If there is no threshold associated with the application’s database, then other thresholds are checked, in the following sequence: Host for the associated LUN/Filesystem/Database, then host group to which the host belongs, and then the Top-level, global host group. If no threshold settings are found at the above levels, the system defaults are used: 90% for Critical, 70% for Warning, and 30% for Low. Thresholds can be set by an administrator using Admin > Threshold Policies.

Over-Provisioned Applications

Identifies applications that are at risk of having over-provisioned storage—resulting in wasted storage. Often, storage is allocated to a project, but never used. This report helps you to identify excess, unused storage so that it can be reclaimed for another purpose.

Aggregated Chargeback

Lists aggregated tiered chargeback data. This Capacity Chargeback report enables you to aggregate the data by host groups or by a particular host attribute (for example, Department). The default is host group.

Chargeback Array Capacity

Displays chargeback usage and charges associated with storage array policies. Note that Virtual Capacity is applicable only for Hitachi arrays--that is, capacity from block storage, derived from daisy-chained external storage. This is array group capacity that does not have PDEVs in the storage array. Also note that for HP 3PAR arrays, a LUN refers to a virtual volume.

Chargeback by Host

Displays usage and user-defined chargeback/billing by host. Capacity Chargeback Policies are configured by the Administrator. The administrator uses these policies to assign a cost-per-GB to hosts in a host group.

Chargeback Policy Capacity

Displays chargeback policy capacity for RAID and LUNs. As a prerequisite for this report, capacity chargeback policies must be configured. Note that Virtual Capacity is applicable only for Hitachi arrays--that is, capacity from a block storage, derived from daisy-chained external storage. This is array group capacity that does not have PDEVs in the storage array.

Exception Summary

Lists all the filesystem mount points that need attention. Mount points may require attention for one of the following reasons:

To provide a realistic forecast, the time span for determining when capacity may be at risk has been limited to five years.

Hosts at Risk

Lists only the hosts that require your immediate attention. Use the host link to drill down to particulars. Select a capacity threshold: Low, Warning, or Critical.This report lists only the hosts that require your immediate attention. Use the host link to drill down to particulars. Select a capacity threshold: Low, Warning, or Critical.

LUNs At Risk

Displays LUNs at risk by evaluating current and projected usage. When you generate this report, select a capacity threshold: Low, Warning, or Critical. Typically, for at risk reports, you will want to view the Critical LUNs—that is, those that are at risk of breaching the critical threshold and running out of space.

When reviewing the values in this report, note that LUNs at risk are determined by evaluating current and projected usage.

NetApp Aggregates at Risk

Lists host usage that is about to exceed the storage that was promised. For thin provisioning, it’s important to know when host usage is about to exceed the storage that was promised. The details shown in this aggregate report can help you understand the current physical capacity status. When an aggregate is at risk—the amount of used storage in the flexvol approaches the aggregate’s capacity—it can be re-sized to add physical disk space to the aggregate. The Total Capacity value represents the amount of storage that has been committed or promised to hosts. Therefore, host resources data collection must be implemented in order to determine which Aggregates are at risk and an associated host must be at risk in order for the Aggregate to be considered at risk.

When you generate this report, you can select the threshold to report: Low, Warning, or Critical.

NetApp Volumes at Risk

Lists thin-provisioned volumes that may be at risk of over-commitment. When you configure thin provisioning, you enable multiple volumes to access the same pool of free storage. Since thin provisioning “commits” more storage to hosts than is actually available, it is important to identify the remaining, usable storage and the point at which the aggregate is at risk of not having available storage.

Host resources data collection must be implemented to determine which NetApp Volumes are at risk.

Over-Provisioned Hosts

Enables you to determine which hosts are over-provisioned. By determining which hosts are over-provisioned, you can take steps to reclaim the space before committing resources to acquire additional storage. Over-provisioning leads to increased costs as a result of under-utilized storage.

When you execute this report, you can select the Threshold for the list that will be displayed. Typically, you’ll be interested in the Low or Warning thresholds. Since this report shows over-provisioning, the list will show usage that has not reached the threshold.

Over-Provisioned LUNs

Displays over-provisioning by showing LUN usage that has not reached the specified threshold. Over-provisioning leads to increased costs unless you reclaim the space. When you execute this report, you can select the Threshold for the list that will be displayed. Typically, you’ll be interested in the Low or Warning thresholds. The list will show usage that has not reached the threshold.

Host to Storage Dashboard

View a multi-portlet report that shows topology and port details from the host to the storage array. Use this report to help isolate fabric connectivity and configuration issues, from the host's perspective. Check connections and paths between the host and array. Only active zones, where the particular host is a member, are shown in the Host to Storage Dashboard.

Port Summary

List ports connected to Hosts/Arrays/Switches. Each port indicates its associated switch, speed, status, and the device to which it is connected.

SAN Fabric Summary

View a summary of the SAN Fabrics in your environment. List of SAN Fabrics. Switches connected through the ISL, which forms the fabric, are listed in this report.

Switch Summary

List a summary of switches for each fabric. Identify total, used, and free ports for switches. Switch details, such as the IP address and firmware version are also listed.

Zone Summary

List a summary of zones configured in SAN Fabrics. Use this summary to access zone configuration details, such as the associated zone set and the members of the zone. Note that a device can be in more than one zone and only one zone set will be active at a time.

Bottom Ranking

Use this report to aid in load balancing. For example, a pie chart represents the lowest volume switches/ports. Metrics that can be represented include usage, errors, and throughput.

Port Distribution

Displays a pie chart of how the ports are used. Pie slices represent port types: hosts, arrays, unused, unlicensed, and unidentified. Each slice enables a drill down to the relevant Port Summary.

SAN Resource Utilization

List switches and ports used by arrays. This at-a-glance table provides an
end-to-end view of the port on the switch that is connected to the array, along with the number of hosts using the array's storage.

Top Ranking

View a pie chart that represents the most used switches or ports. Use this report to aid in load balancing. For the top ranked switches or ports, the following metrics can be reflected in the chart: usage, errors, and throughput.

SAN Fabric Change Status Summary

View a graphical representation of alerts and lifecycle changes, with status metrics. Isolate issues based on status: information, warning, or error. Drill down on a bar chart section to view the SAN Fabric Change Summary, which includes severity details.

SAN Fabric Change Summary

A list of alerts and life cycle changes, with relevant messages. Identify events or error indications thrown from the switch to audit, isolate, and troubleshoot connectivity issues.

Port Performance Dashboard

View port performance statistics with utilization and volume graphs. Use this report to view port throughput and utilization details for load balancing and troubleshooting SAN fabric issues.

Port Performance Summary

List of ports, with access to details on utilization and throughput. Check the port performance for ports that are active over a period of time. Typically, port statistics are collected every 15 minutes.

SAN Fabric Usage

List SAN Fabric statistics that enable chargebacks. Define SAN Fabric chargeback policies for cost-per-TB and cost-per-switch-port. Then, use this report for usage chargebacks.

Port Error Rate Forecast

List of ports with error rate statistics, with access to an Error Trend graph. Identify switch ports that may have persistent issues, accounting for degradation of performance. Errors include CRC, encoding, and loss of sync/signal.

Port Utilization Forecast

List of ports with utilization and throughput data, with access to a Utilization Trend graph. Use this report to determine which ports have the most activity when troubleshooting fabric issues or planning load balancing.

Capacity

View the current capacity, utilization and number of files by volume. This information can be used as an indicator of storage efficiency. This report lists current capacity and utilization, which aids in maintaining volumes at optimum utilization.

Capacity Forecast

Forecast capacity usage, including the number of users with files consuming capacity. Using historical data, you can view graphs representing anticipated capacity usage by device, and volume/share.

Host Summary

Lists a capacity summary for the hosts from which file data was collected with drilldowns into Volumes and Shares. Use this report to get an overview of how devices and volumes are being used, including an indicator of how much is duplication.

New Files Added

List new files added to the system over a period of time. Provides a graphical representation of the trend of the number of files that have been added, over time, in your environment. File Analytics data collection groups the files by historic create dates and stores the metadata for these files in the database for reports such as this.

Mouse over the data points in the graph to view the number of files added for the associated time period.

Usage by Owner

View an representation of the summary of the data collected by owners. Lists, by user, essential storage usage information for files collected. The highest users are listed first. This data could be used to support chargeback reporting.

Usage by Owner Forecast

Forecasts the space usage by owner. Drill down to individual owners to plan storage usage. Using historical usage data, this report forecasts anticipated usage over the next six months.

Deduplication Candidates

Indicates the possible candidates for Deduplication. Use this report to find hosts that have duplicate files that can be removed to free up storage.

Duplicate Files

Indicates the potential volume of redundant data within the surveyed device. Duplicate files often go undiscovered, consuming more than their fair share of storage. This report reveals the duplicate files found in your enterprise. These duplicate files represent an opportunity to reclaim wasted space on NAS volumes.

File Categories

Categorizes the top file types by volume. Aggregates file types into application categories. Bar charts provide an at-a-glance view of storage consumption by application.

File Sizes

View a breakdown of the file sizes across the profiled devices. Each file size group can be exported to a CSV file, which includes details for each of the files, including owners, file type, sizes, and access information.

File Types

Categorizes the top file types by volume. The file types are represented in the bar charts to enable an at-a-glance insight into storage usage. The report profiles and categorizes collected data by file type (filename extension). This categorized data is listed in the report, which lists the top 50 file types for the selected volumes/shares. For a complete list of all profiled file types, use the Export List check box, available in the File Types report.

Largest Files

Lists a breakdown of the largest file sizes across the profiled devices. The largest files discovered are listed in descending order to help you identify the storage consumption offenders.

Access Dates

View an overview of categories of file ages starting with the creation date. Bar charts illustrate the period since a file was last opened for reading or reference only.

Create Dates

View bar charts that represent the age of groups of files since they were first allocated. Use this report to get an understanding of the trend of file creations to plan for storage requirements.

Modified Dates

View bar charts that illustrate the period since files were last opened for editing or modification. Use this report to determine the historical activity for files consuming space.

Data Protection Dashboard

Displays an aggregated view of SnapVault event status. This report provides an at-a-glance view of the status of your SnapVault data transfers, with drilldowns to details so that you can quickly resolve issues.

SnapVault Data Transfer

Display a bar chart that represents the amount of SnapVault data transferred. This bar chart represents the amount of data transferred from NetApp source to destination systems.

SnapVault QTrees at Risk

Lists SnapVault QTrees that are at risk of exceeding available capacity. Identify the risk data; that is, the date and time that the destination location is expected to have a limited amount of storage available. Choose the threshold on which to report, from low to critical.

SnapVault Relationship Summary

Lists source-destination pairs for SnapVault transactions. Choose to report by volume or QTree and select the mirror states to examine. For additional details about a Failed transaction, mouse over the Summary Status to view the message.

SnapVault Schedule

Lists the SnapVault schedules with array and volume information. View primary or secondary SnapVault schedules for an overview of the associated volumes and retention count.

SnapVault Sec Configuration

Lists SnapVault primary and secondary paths, with success/failure statistics. Use this report to get an overview of the state of SnapVault secondary configurations.

SnapVault Status

Displays a bar chart for an at-a-glance view of SnapVault status, with drill down access to details. This at-a-glance view lets you quickly identify warnings and failures that need to be investigated.

SnapVault Summary

Lists SnapVault events with status and performance data. View a list of SnapVault transactions, by destination location.

FlexClone Summary

Lists FlexClone transactions with aggregate available capacity. This report lists parent-child volume clones with related snapshot data.

Aggregate Mirror Summary

Lists a summary of each NetApp Aggregate that was mirrored and its status. Use this report to get an overview of the state of all aggregate mirrors.

Collection Message Summary

Lists issues that occurred during the data collection process for EMC NetWorker, HP Data Protector, and Capacity Manager Host Resources. Use this report to identify the reason for missing backup and storage capacity status for EMC NetWorker, HP Data Protector, and Capacity Manager, Host Resources. Data Collection messages can be filtered by Host, Data Collector or Child thread.

Data Collector Status Summary

Lists data collectors, which indicates if there have been collection gaps or issues. Use advanced report filtering and schedule an alert to email you when issues are identified.

Database Error Summary

Lists database errors that may need to be brought to the attention of Customer Support; however, user-resolvable errors may also be included in the summary. Entries in this report do not necessarily signal problems that require corrective action. For example, if a user inadvertently attempts to create a Domain Name that already exists, an entry will be written to the database error log file and also displayed in this report. Ideally, this report will rarely list errors that require additional actions, but periodic monitoring is recommended.

Note: Given that this report extracts customer-specific database messages from a log file, System Administrators should ensure that only authorized personnel are given access to this report.

File Analytics Collection Status

Lists File Analytics collectors with drill downs to error details. This product-specific data collection status report provides essential details that enable you to diagnose collection issues. File Analytics collection is different from other data collection in that it has multiple approaches to interrogating systems, depending on the location of the shares.

License Summary

Lists the StorageConsole products that are licensed. This report is only available to Super Users. Use this report to identify what products have been licensed, how much of the licensed capacity has been used, and when the terms of the product license expire. In addition, you can access the usage details to determine how close you may be to licensing limits.

Report Activity Summary

View a bar chart representing run-time of reports, with a drill down to details. This report presents a graphical representation of the aggregate of the time for Portal report generation. You can mouse over a bar to view the total elapsed time and click a bar to view the details.

Scheduled Reports Summary

Lists a summary of reports that are scheduled as alerts, exports, or emails. Use this report to view and manage scheduled reports. Click the Frequency link to modify a schedule.

Top Running Reports

Lists the reports that have been running for long periods of time or that have run an excessive number of times. The average execution time includes not only the database query, but also the time associated with building the report on the Portal server.

Version History

View the historical list of software upgrade versions. This report lists the installation and upgrade events so that you can determine the current version and history of StorageConsole software upgrades. This report enables you to verify that the latest patches have been installed. The status indicates the success or failure of the installation/upgrade process. The Comments, if available, are derived from the process as well.

WMI Proxy Servers

Use this report to determine if the WMI Proxy Servers that are used by data collectors are up-to-date. This report is only available to Super Users. Each Data Collector can communicate with one or more WMI Proxies, so the Data Collector captures the server name/IP and the Proxy version from each of the servers running the WMI Proxy.

VM Cluster Summary

Lists all ESX Clusters configured in the scope, one line item per cluster with aggregated capacity utilization and High Availability (HA) metrics illustrated.

VM Files Summary

View specific files associated with a VM. This report is key to identifying reclaimable storage.

VM Server Summary

List the VM Servers, with CPU, Memory, Disk, and Datastore Usage. Drill down to specific VM details, such as VM Server Details and Physical Disk Utilization. Use this report to view the list of Virtual Machine Servers, with access to reports that provide details to help you determine what is using the space on a datastore. This report lists ESX servers, one line item for each physical server, with usage and status information.

VM Snapshot Summary

Virtualization Manager snapshots identifying capacity associated with each snapshot, when the snapshot was created, by guest, ESX server and Datastore. Used for identifying out-of-date snapshots.

VM Storage Mapping Summary

Maps the VMs to the physical disks. Use this report to see the relationships among the ESX servers, datastores, and physical storage.

VM Summary

View the list of Virtual Machines, including capacity usage and VM status. Lists ESX servers, one line item for each physical server with usage and status. Drill down to view details, including Datastore and Logical Disk Utilization.

Datastore Usage Breakdown

View pie charts that represent the usage by file type, such as VMDK, VM not in Inventory, non-VM files, and free space. The usage value for Non-VM Files includes metadata—system files that comprise system overhead.

Datastore Utilization

Identify what storage is in use and where it is located. Link to details to view Extents and the corresponding Physical Disk details. Also, link to the array from which the storage has been provisioned.

Physical Disk Utilization

List physical disks associated with VMs, along with Array and LUN mappings. This report can help with resource balancing by providing insight into host/cluster/resource pool utilization.

Datastore Performance Summary

Lists Datastores with disk I/O statistics, including read/write latency. Disk Read and Write Latency is available only for ESX Hosts (not VMs). Therefore, latency performance charts are available only for partitions of Type=Host.

Physical Disk Performance Over Time

View charts of physical disk performance over time, with drilldowns to VM details. Mouse over points on the graphs to view the number of reads and writes, along with latency values.

Physical Disk Performance Summary

Lists physical disks with I/O statistics, including read/write latency. Use the Show Chart option to graph the statistics.

VM Performance Over Time

Charts of CPU, Memory, Disk I/O Usage, and Disk Write Latency over time. Disk Read and Write Latency is available only for ESX Hosts (not VMs). Therefore, latency performance charts are available only for partitions of Type=Host.

VM Performance Summary

Report on CPU and Memory usage, enabling insight into storage access bottlenecks. Enables a Storage Administrator to have an at-a-glance look at I/O performance statistics: CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O. In addition, Disk I/O is broken out into reads and writes, with latency statistics. Also provides the necessary CPU Ready States and CPU Wait States to determine if an ESX host can handle another VM Guest.

Datastore Capacity Forecast

View average capacity and forecasted usage graphs for each Datastore. Drill down to Datastore details including type, location, associated VMs and number of arrays.

VM Size Forecast

View graphs that project growth, based on historical usage. Drill down to view VM server details.

VMs Over Time

Shows how VM servers have been organized into ESX Clusters or grouped by host group (scope selector option). Offers a historical perspective on the number of VM Guests being offered by the ESX Cluster or host group. Includes drill down to VM Summary for member VM Guests. Helps to illustrate the growth of their virtualized environments that are clustered.