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

Usable Volumes

The Usable Volumes fields provide an overview of available storage capacity.

Table: Usable Volumes

Column name

Description

Usable Summary

Disk Space

Sum of the number of drives times the drive capacity

Available Disk Space

The value is calculated using the following: [(number of disks - number of spare disks) - (number of spare modules x 12)] x disk capacity x 0.96/2

Formatted Volume Space

Sum of all volume sizes, or total allocated (or provisioned) storage

Formatted Snapshot Space

Sum of volume sizes minus the sum of all volumes used

Formatted Space

Formatted available and usable storage

Formatted Space Used

The Formatted Space Used value is used to derive Formatted Utilization

Formatted with No Volumes

The unused portion of the provisioned capacity shared by all volumes; volumes do not consume storage until pages are written by the OS; all LUNs are thin

Overall Unavailable Disk Space

Metadata and system reserve used for traces and statistics

Subscription

The thermometer tooltip indicates if storage has been over-subscribed.

Formatted Utilization

The thermometer tooltip indicates the formatted storage utilization %, calculated as Formatted Space Used/Formatted Space

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