Planning Activity > Capacity Planning > Forecasted Size report

Planning Activity provides reports on future NetBackup projected trends for storage capacity needs, media consumption, job sizes, schedules, and counts.

Capacity Planning provides reports on historical NetBackup storage consumption and projected future NetBackup storage needs.

The Planning Activity > Capacity Planning > Forecasted Size report shows the supply vs. demand historically but also adds a forecast line for both supply and demand that can show when in the future they may meet. The point that these two lines intersect would be the date that new capacity (more disk or more backup tapes) needs to be added. In the above example the supply is by far outgrowing the demand, which would suggest that more capacity does not need to be purchased.

The default first view of this report shows the entire backup environment but for actual use it should be filtered to a specific tape library since some libraries may be closer to full capacity than others.

The EMM Server column has been removed from the Media filter. The Master Server filter can be used to view data for specific servers instead of the EMM Server column.