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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. Array Capacity Utilization Reports
  5. Array Capacity and Utilization (IBM XIV View)
  6. Physical Summary

Physical Summary

The Physical Summary provides system-wide capacity status.

Table: Physical Summary

Column name

Description

Physical Summary

# Pools

Links to XIV Storage Pools Summary

Soft Limit

The logical amount of space for all storage pools in the array. A soft limit greater than the hard limit indicates thin provisioning.

Hard Limit

Maximum physical capacity that can be used by volumes and snapshots in the pool.

Free Hard

Amount of unused physical space in the array

Free Soft

Unused amount of the logical storage that has been presented to hosts and applications

Hard Utilization

(hard limit - free hard)/hard limit

Spare Disks

# of spare disks in the array

Spare Modules

# of spare modules in the array

Target Spare Disks

# of spare disks on the remote target system

Target Spare Modules

# of spare modules on the remote target system

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