Capacity Planning Summary - Array
To access this report, in the Navigation pane select:
Capacity Manager > Array Capacity & Utilization > Capacity Planning Summary
The Capacity Planning Summary report 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. Often, array usage is allocated to departments in an organization, so this report can provide an at-a-glance view for department capacity planning. See
Capacity Planning Bar Chart.
The report relies on historical chargeback data, so a number of prerequisites must be in place for relevant data to be available.
Several Scope Selector parameters affect the organization of the data rendered in the report.
Attribute | Select an Attribute to aggregate the data by an attribute, such as Location or Department. To configure attributes for a host, see Adding Attributes in the APTARE StorageConsole User’s Guide. |
Group by | Weeks, Months, Quarters, Years. |
Report by Tier | This grouping is driven by Capacity Chargeback Policies. |
Capacity Planning Bar Chart
This is a host-perspective report, which includes storage capacity discovered either by host data collection or mapping via a WWN associated with an array’s storage paths.
• Used = Total used capacity (written to by the host) of the allocated storage
• Unused = (Allocated to host) - (Used by host) where Used by host means filesystem usage
Note that if the storage type is a mix of SAN and DAS, this storage is not included in the reported capacity.