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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. Backup Manager Forecasting Reports
  5. NetBackup Library Capacity Forecast

NetBackup Library Capacity Forecast

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

Backup Manager > Forecasting & Capacity Planning > Library Capacity Forecast

This report can display either a bar chart view or a tabular report of library capacity, current usage, and forecasted usage. In the scope selector, select display as Chart or display as Table.

Note that in the bar chart, the yellow line represents estimated library capacity.

See Tape Media Detail Report .

  • Current Used Capacity - Space occupied on full and filling tapes now in slots

  • Current Free Capacity - Space remaining on empty or filling tapes now in slots

  • Extra Potential Capacity - Average measured capacity of one full tape times the number of open slots

  • Forecasted Usage - The anticipated tape usage based on historical data

To view this same data in tabular format, select Display as Table in the scope selector.

The following table lists fields displayed in either the bar chart or the table.

Table: NetBackup Library Capacity Forecast

Column name

Description

Management Server

This is the NetBackup Primary Server.

Controlling Server

This is the NetBackup media server that controls the library. This links to Host Details.

Library

The name of the tape library

# of Slots

The number of slots in the library

Serial Number

Serial number of the tape library

SCSII Info

The device's SCII details

Date

The date that represents the time period start date

Current Usage

Average usage, as of the associated date

Forecasted Usage

Forecasted usage, based on the reports start and end dates

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