Storage report

The Storage report provides information about all configured backup storage, and displays a graphical and tabular view of this information. A pie chart displays a snapshot of the current information, and a bar graph displays information over the last thirty days.

When finished, click Report Categories in the upper left to return to the Available Reports page.

An example report is given here. Refer to the table below for a description of the available report columns. Not all columns display by default. To customize your output, click the icon to the right of the column header.

Report Field

Field description

Storage Totals Pie Chart

Graphical view of the appliance's backup storage.

Storage Totals

The appliance's total storage capacity. Includes all backup storage devices. Does not include backup copy target storage.

Note:  Reports and fields related to available storage on physical appliances report on the licensed storage instead of the total raw storage.

Free Storage

Amount of backup storage space available on the appliance.

Used Storage

Amount of backup storage space used on the appliance.

Backup Storage Usage Graph

Graph of storage used and available over the last 30 days.

Date

For a given day, provides a snapshot of the storage on the appliance (free versus used). Hover over a bar in the graph to see used and free capacity, in gigabytes.

Free Storage

Snapshot of the amount of backup storage space available on the appliance on a given day, in gray.

Used Storage

Snapshot of the amount of backup storage space used on the appliance on a given day, in green.

Storage Table columns

Storage details by device.

Appliance ID

System-generated ID assigned to the appliance.

Appliance Name

Name of the backup appliance.

ID

System-generated ID assigned to the storage device.

Name

Storage device name. The initial backup storage device is Internal.

Type

Storage type: Internal, NAS, FC (Fibre Channel), AOE, and Direct-Attached Disk.

Protocol

For external storage, displays the connection protocol. For example, NFS or iSCSI.

Usage

How the storage is used by the appliance. For example, stateless for backup storage or archive for backup copy storage.

Online

Indicates whether the storage is currently online: True (yes) or False (no).

Status

Status of the storage: online or offline.

Allocated Storage (GB)

The amount of allocated storage for the storage device, in gigabytes.

MB Free

The amount of free space on the storage device, in megabytes.

Total Backup Data (GB)

The total amount of backup data on the storage device, in gigabytes.

Daily Growth

The average amount that used storage increased from one day to the next day. Averaged over the last 30 days.

Dedupe Ratio

For appliances that use deduplication, shows the amount of space saved on the storage device by not storing duplicate data blocks. Expressed as a ratio: amount of backup data before deduplication / storage space used after deduplication.

Size History

Hover over this field to view the size history of the storage device over the last 30 days. Example: