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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. Storage Optimization Solution Reports
  5. File Type Usage

File Type Usage

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:

Solutions > Storage Optimization > Storage Optimization Analysis

Click the File Type Usage sector.

Then, click a Total Size link or check several boxes and Show Selected.

Table: File Type Usage

Column name

Description

Host Name

Name of the host.

Context Name

Name of the context.

Host Type

Host type.

Context Type

Indicates if this file type is a volume (V) or a share (S).

Is Active

Indicates if the context is active: Y or N.

File Type

File type, such as tif.

# of Files

Number of files for this type.

Total Size

Total amount of storage consumed by this file type.

Total %

Percentage of a file type's size compared to the total file capacity for a host.

Cost per GiB

Cost per GiB for storage associated with this storage optimization rule.

Total Cost

Total cost of FA file types.

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