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  5. Physical Disk Utilization

Physical Disk Utilization

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:

Virtualization Manager > Storage Capacity & Utilization > Physical Disk Utilization

Use this report to view what disk space has been allocated to datastores.

Table: Physical Disk Utilization

Column name

Description

Name

The raw device mapping path, with the following components: HBA, SCSI target, SCSI LUN.

VM Server

Name of the VM Server.

Disk Type

SCSI device type, such as disk.

Vendor

Device manufacturer.

Array

The array on which the disk resides; links to the Array Capacity & Utilization report.

LUN

The LUN path, with the following components HBA, SCSI target, SCSI LUN, disk partition.

Links to the LUN Utilization Summary.

Total Capacity

Total capacity of the disk.

Allocated Capacity

The amount of the disk that has been allocated.

# Datastores

The number of datastores that are using the disk.

# Extents

The number of extents associated with the disk.

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