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If no compression is in use then physical used capacity is the used capacity of
the pool(s).
Analyzing data in the dashboard
The dashboard is a visual display of the important information needed to analyze the
overall capacity utilization and health of your storage system. It provides visual indicators
such as total usable capacity, current utilization, data protection summary, and
monitoring alerts.
Analyzing data shown in alert tiles
The alert tiles collectively present the health of the storage system environment. In one
glance you can verify that the overall health is sound if you see no alerts on the alert
tiles. This means that there are no capacity or hardware issues in the environment, no
failed jobs in the last 24 hours and that the data protection is working without any
issues.
If there are any alerts, you can drill down to the relevant alert page to investigate the
cause. Storage Advisor provides alerts for capacity utilization, hardware, data protection,
and jobs status.
Analyzing data in the information gauge
The information gauge provides a visual indication of the total capacity of all storage
systems managed by Storage Advisor.
The capacity indicated in the center of the ring is the total usable capacity available via
the
configured
parity groups. After you add a storage system and
configure
parity
groups, the total capacity indicator will show the capacity from the newly added storage
system. The Thin Used capacity (light green ring) indicates the total capacity that is
currently being used. If the usage is around 70-80% of the total capacity, you may receive
capacity alerts based on the thresholds set by your storage administrator. The default
thresholds are 70% and 80%, and can be changed during pool creation.
The light grey ring that provides a sum of capacities of all pools in the systems should be
closer to 100% capacity. This would mean that you are using your entire parity group
capacity by allocating it to pools. If the Thin Used capacity ring (light green) nears the
total capacity (light grey ring) then you may run out of pool capacity soon. In such a case,
expand the pool to consume more capacity.
If you notice that the total pool capacity (light grey ring) and Thin used (light green ring)
values are getting closer to total capacity, you may be running out of disk capacity on
one or more storage systems and would need to add disk space to increase storage
capacity. Before adding disk space:
Analyzing data in the dashboard
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