Capacity Auditor
Capacity Auditor considers how storage processes such as deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning are impacting your storage utilization and identifies where and when capacity adjustments need to be made to storage.
Capacity Auditor shows you capacity data and trends for your PowerMax and Isilon storage arrays.
Running Capacity Auditor
Select Run New Capacity Auditor from the Analytics home page.
Set Capacity Auditor parameters.
Choose whether to group the storage arrays by a property.
Tip
You can define custom properties for storage arrays and use them in the analysis.
To analyze a subset of arrays, use the filter to select one or more named storage arrays. You can filter for storage arrays in/not in a specified list, related to other entities, or with a specified property.
Select threshold values for red/yellow severity warning levels.
Choose a date range. You should run the analytic for the past twelve months, if data is available, then monthly thereafter.
Click Run to run the analytic.
Understanding Capacity Auditor Results
Capacity Auditor results are displayed in three sections on a single page.
The first section shows you usage statistics for the storage array(s).
The middle section displays a trend chart showing monthly trends for capacity for the storage array(s).
The bottom section displays more details about the selected storage array grouping.
Rows display details for each storage array, including the time to reach the "red" capacity threshold chosen for the analysis. Changing this threshold changes the forecast.
To view details for a previous analysis, click the date and select a previous snapshot.
To view results for a different property value, click the value and select from the list.
