Storage
Storage views supported per family are as follows:
Product Family | Supported Version | Available Views |
|---|---|---|
NetBackup Appliance | 3.2 or later | All |
Flex Appliance | 2.0.1 or later | Tenant and Instance |
Flex Appliance | 3.0 or later | Tenant, Instance, Total Capacity, Unallocated, Allocated and Used |
Access Appliance | 8.0 or later | All |
Flex Scale Appliance | 2.1 or later | All |
The Storage tab provides a detailed view of the storage allocation, current utilization, historical trend, and forecasted trend for each detected volume.
For Flex Appliances v 2.0.1 or later, the tab also provides
Tenant and instance level details through Type and Instance Status filters.
Tenant level or instance level details.
Tenant level and instance level allocation .
The donut chart represents the total allocated, used, and available space for each shared volume.
For Flex Appliances v 3.0 or later,
You can visualize Capacity, Unallocated, Allocated and Used storage capacity of an appliance.
You can perform the following actions in the Storage tab:
Hover a mouse over the chart to view the details.
Export all the storage utilization data in a PDF format by clicking Export in the kebab menu.
For HA appliances, you can select radio buttons from the left pane to change the label on Y axis. It means, if you selects MSDP or Advance Disk radio button, the Y axis label will change and values corresponding to the label will appear on the screen.
You can see the Last updated on information.
You can see the Storage forecast for your appliance.
You can select the individual shared or reserved volumes from the lists on the right-hand side, to view the corresponding utilization on the donut chart.
For clustered systems, you can filter and view the space utilization for the reserved volumes, for each node.
You can check the status of the Flex Instance by applying the available filters.
A warning message appears regarding the difference between MSDP utilization received from telemetry and MSDP utility. This message will appear for NetBackup and Flex appliances. This message will appear for NetBackup and Flex appliances.
This message will appear for NetBackup and Flex appliances.
Based on the volumes you select; the Utilization Trend graph is generated that shows the historical utilization of the past 6 months and predictive utilization for the next 3 months.
The historical data is provided by the appliance AutoSupport telemetry payload, which collects storage utilization data every 15 minutes and transmits the bundle of increments every 24 hours.
The graph is an interactive representation that can scale from last 24 hours to more than 2 years, as well as supports the zoom function to look at the granular utilization data.
Click and drag within the graph to focus on a specific time-period. Click Reset zoom at any time to revert to the original scale.
Click on the keys for capacity limit, historical utilization, or predictive utilization to exclude the relevant metric from the graph.
Changes in the capacity limit (Red dashed line) indicate where storage was added or removed.
Hover over the data points to see utilization details at the specific time.
You will also find Node-specific Reserved Volumes and Shared Volumes details under Utilization Trend Graph.