Primary Storage Data Growth Report

This report shows the trend of data growth for all or one of the following over a specified time range:

• An entire QSMCell, for a QSM Client, for selected QSM Agents, or for objects reported by those Agents.
• An entire CommCell, for a SRM Client, for selected SRM Agents, or for objects reported by those Agents.

It does this by reporting multiple point-in-time values for the actual space used, displaying this in a chart format; thus you can quickly identify large increases and decreases in data growth across all of your QSMCells and/or CommCell(s) containing SRM components - at a glance, reviewing both the chart showing the trend as well as an actual measure of space used. This report can be useful, for instance, when planning migration archiving operations, by quickly revealing trends, and then identifying precisely where data growth is taking place in your primary storage.

First run this report for Daily results, then Weekly, and finally Monthly. This will help you to spot trends, and is useful for the following:

• To find the QSM/SRM Clients or Agents with the fastest data growth.
• To find the actual space used in gigabytes, at a given point in time.
• For comparisons of data sizes, over a period of time.

When you spot a data growth trend for a QSMCell or CommCell with SRM components or Client that bears further examination, run the report again, focusing on the Agents or on specific objects reported by that Agent, to see where the data growth is actually taking place.

NOTE

If this report is run on an Exchange subclient with public folder data content, data size figures are rounded to the nearest tenth, e.g., 0.1 will be represented as 0.0.