Storage views

The Storage views enable you to view and manage the capacity of the major storage platforms. These views present key capacity metrics and charts for the storage systems, storage pools, volumes, hosts, filers and shares present in your environment.

You can use these views to know how much capacity has been allocated and consumed, identify possible risks of saturation and oversubscription, and determine top-consumers.

Overview
Certified data sources
Data visibility
Using the views

Warning

The capacity consumed by the virtual machines cannot be represented by the Storage views since the datastores' logical assembly is not visible.

Out-of-the-box capacity views

Overview

The Storage views leverage the storage connectors to collect all the metrics required for:

allocating storage capacity to new servers
analyzing storage capacity utilization
keeping an eye on over-subscribed thin pools
planning for additional storage capacity
reclaiming unused storage capacity
reporting the capacity consumed per host
reporting the capacity consumed per share
generating reports

Certified data sources

The certified data sources for these views are as follows:

Storage – Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager Extractor
Storage – EMC SMI-S Agent Extractor
Storage – EMC XtremIO Management Server Extractor
Storage – Hitachi Device Manager Extractor
Storage – HP 3PAR Extractor
Storage – IBM SVC-Storwize CIM Agent Extractor
Storage – IBM XiV Extractor
Storage – NetApp Data ONTAP Extractor

Depending on the storage systems that compose your datacenter, you will have to configure and run one or several of these ETL modules to import data into the view. For more information, see:

Data visibility

The views display data for:

hosts
storage systems
storage filers
storage pools
storage volumes
storage shares

Using the views

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Storage views

Overview

Certified data sources

Data visibility

Using the views