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  5. Capacity Forecast

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:

File Analytics > Capacity Management & Chargeback > Capacity Forecast

See File Analytics Overview.

Using historical data, you can view graphs representing anticipated capacity usage by device, and volume/share.

Table: Capacity Forecast

Column name

Description

Device

Links to Capacity Forecast by Device.

Volume/Share

Links to Capacity Forecast by Volume/Share.

Current

Unique Owners

Number of unique users with files consuming capacity.

# Files

Number of files consuming capacity.

Used (6 months)

Amount of storage used by the files (from an OS perspective: ONTAP, Windows, or Linux) in the last six months displayed in an area chart. Note, six months is a default value.

# Files (6 months)

Numbers of files consuming capacity in the last six months displayed in an area chart. Note, six months is a default value.

Used

Amount of storage used by the files (from an OS perspective: ONTAP, Windows, or Linux). For a share, this value may represent the total storage used on the device across all the shares on the device.

Presented

The sum of all the member file sizes on the Volume/Share; this sum could be different from the Volume/Share Used value when de-duplication or compression is in play.

Util %

Used/Capacity.

Capacity

Allocated size of the Volume/Share. For a share, this value may represent the total storage capacity allocated to the device for all the shares on the device.

Estimated Out of Space

Days

Extrapolated days left prior to 100% used capacity (volumes).

Date

Extrapolated date of 100% used capacity (volumes).

Description

This is the description that was entered when the host was created in the Portal database.

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