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

 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

Prerequisites

Ensure that the administrator has completed the following tasks:

• Installed the add-on packages of views
• Granted you access to the views

For information about views, see Accessing and using capacity views in the Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard.

Certified data sources

The certified data sources for these views are as follows:

• Storage - Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager Extractor
• Storage - Dell EMC Unity CIM Server Extractor
• Storage - Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage REST API 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
  
• Storage - Pure Storage REST API Extractor
• Storage - All-in-One Extractor Service
  

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:  

• Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• Dell EMC Unity CIM Server ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• EMC SMI-S Agent ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• EMC XtremIO Management Server ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• Hitachi Device Manager ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
  
• HP 3PAR ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• IBM SVC-Storwize ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
  
• IBM XiV ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• NetApp Data ONTAP ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• Pure Storage REST API ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization
• Storage All-in-One ETL 19.11 for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization

Data visibility

The views display data for:

• hosts
• storage systems
• storage filers
• storage pools
• storage volumes
• storage shares

Using the views