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  3. Section V. Report Reference
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  5. Host Volume Growth and Forecast

Host Volume Growth and 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:

Capacity Manager > Storage Capacity & Forecast > Host Volume Growth and Forecast

This report lists from the host perspective, all discovered file systems, capacities, growth rates and projected out-of-space conditions allowing you to monitor system (physical and virtual) volume usage and avoid service outages. The time frame for the forecast is set in scope selector when you generate a report. In the report's scope selector, the Host Type option can be used to include virtual hosts in this host-based report: VM Server, VM Guest, VIO Server, VIO Guest, Oracle Container, Oracle Zone, Hyper-V Server, Hyper-V Guest, or Other.

Table: Host Volume Growth and Forecast

Column name

Description

Device Name

Host name.

Volume Name

Volume name.

Used

Amount of used capacity for the file system from host perspective. The value for the Used column is always the current used, but the projection is based on the time period set in the scope selector.

Total

Total allocated capacity of the file system from host perspective.

Current Used %

Thermometer 0% to 100%, colored green, yellow, red according to the current utilization of the file system.

Rate/Day

Average daily growth of the file system.

Rate %/Day

Average daily percentage increase or decrease for the file system.

80%

Expected date when the file system will reach 80% capacity, or an indication it has been reached.

90%

Expected date when the file system will reach 90% capacity, or an indication it has been reached.

100%

Expected date when the file system will reach 100% capacity, or an indication it has been reached.

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