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# 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:

   - —Exports the report to a CSV or PDF file.