View Storage Group Demand Reports

Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

About this task

This procedure explains how to view storage groups on an SRP and their associated workloads.

To view storage group demand reports:

Steps

  1. Select the storage system.
  2. Select Capacity to open the Capacity dashboard.
  3. Select an SRP instance from the drop-down menu and in the Actions panel, click STORAGE GROUP DEMAND.
    Some or all the following properties display:
    • Storage Group—Name of the storage group
    • Emulation—Emulation type - displays only if the storage system is capable of containing CKD devices.
    • Provisioned (GB)—Amount of SRP capacity to which the storage group subscribed
    • Effective Used (GB)—The effective used capacity (in GB)
    • Effective Used (%)—The effective used capacity (percentage)
    • Physical Used (GB)—The physical used capacity (in GB)
    • Compression Ratio—The compression ratio
    • Snap Effective Used (GB)—The effective used capacity used by snapshots
    • Snapshot Physical Used (GB)—The physical used capacity used by snapshots
    • Snapshot Compression Ratio—The snapshot compression ratio
    • Unreducible Used (GB)—Unreducible Used (GB)
    • Snapshot Unreducible Used (GB)—Snapshot Unreducible Used (GB)

    The following control is available:

    • An icon showing a downward-pointing arrow symbol—Exports the report to a CSV or PDF file.