Finding the Capacity of an Element

NOTE: Capacity Manager rounds the data it displays. This rounding could result in discrepancies in the totals you add for a property against the data displayed in the Summary column. For example, if you add the total capacity from each data pool and compare that total against the number for Total Capacity displayed under the Summary heading, you will most likely find the results differ.

To find the capacity of an element:

1.Access Capacity Manager as described in Accessing Capacity Manager” on page 517.

2.(Optional) To quickly view the capacity of all of the elements in a fabric or application path, click the fabric or application path displayed in the tree for Capacity Manager, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 79 Viewing the Capacity of Elements in a Fabric

See About Capacity Manager” on page 515 for an explanation of the colors displayed.

3.Do one of the following:

Click an element in the right pane.

Click an element in the tree for Capacity Manager.

When an element is clicked, a pane appears along the bottom of the page and it displays information under the Capacity Summary and Capacity columns (Port Summary and Port columns for switches), such as the following for applications, hosts and storage systems:

Total Capacity - If a switch is selected, the total number of ports appear instead.

Total Used

Available

*Unmounted Volume

Percentage used

*Appears only for hosts and filers. The Unmounted Volume field under Capacity Summary automatically displays 0 MB if you discovered the host but not the storage system connected to it. This may occur if you did not enter the IP address of the storage system when performing discovery and/or your license does not allow you to discover a particular storage system. See the Supported Elements section in the “List of Features” to determine which storage systems you

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