The Primary Storage Data Growth report displays the space used by the data
from all SRM jobs and the future space usage for a CommCell or its components,
such as clients and agents.
The predicted data growth values are interpolated from the actual data growth
values using a specified period of time. For example, if you specify seven days,
the data growth predictor will use the growth pattern from the last seven days
to predict the future data growth.
Use this report to identify large increases and decreases in data growth
across all your CommCells containing SRM components. This report can be useful
in the following scenarios:
To find SRM clients or agents with the fastest data growth.
To find the actual space used in GB, at a given point in time.
To compare data sizes over a specific period of time.
To identify where the data growth is taking place in your primary
storage before performing migration archiving operations.
This report can be generated for the following entities: (each of them
considered an independent sub-report)
CommCells
Clients
Agents
Volumes/File Systems
Exchange Storage Group
Exchange Store
NAS Filer
NAS LogVolume
SQL Instance
SQL Database
Subclient
Oracle Database
Oracle Instance
Oracle Tablespace
NetWare Pool
NetWare Volume
SP Site Collection(s)
SP Site Database(s)
The above sub-reports display the data in the following sections:
Sections
Description
<Entity> vs Space Used Chart
The chart displays the total space used (in GB) by the selected entity over a
specific period of time.
For example, if the selected entity is Clients,
then the chart will show how much space each client used on a specific date for
each of the selected CommCells.
If this report is generated for an Exchange
component that contains a subclient with public folder data
content, the data size will be rounded to the nearest tenth.
<Entity> vs Space Used Table
The table provides the same information as in the chart.
After a report is generated, you can schedule a new report and save it
to an specific location as a PDF, excel spreadsheet or MHTML file.
Scheduling and saving reports will help you analyze and compare data
from your CommCells.
Follow the steps below to create a schedule:
Click Schedule from the top of the report window.
Type the name of the schedule and enter a description.
Click Next.
Select the appropriate schedule options. For example:
Select the time zone.
Select the start date and the frequency to generate the report.
Change the Start Time to 9:00 PM
Click Repeat Task and configure at which interval the
schedule should be repeated.
Click Next.
Select the file format.
Click Save To File to save the report to a local drive or
network share.
Specify the Destination Path for the output
file.
You can also click Send E-Mail to User(s) and/or User Groups(s) to
send the report as an email attachment to a user or user group.
Click Finish.
The report will be generated as
specified in the schedule task.
You can further customize the report by using
the filters available in the report. To access the filter options, click Filters
at the top of the report window as shown in the image. After making your
selections, click Generate to update the report.
The following table describes the available filter options.
Filter
Description
Time Range Selection
You can adjust the reporting period by selecting the
Frequency drop-down list. Based on the selected frequency, you can also:
Specify the number of days/weeks/months/years.
Exclude the most current data by clearing the
Include current period checkbox.
Predict the future data growth using the growth pattern from the last
day/week/month/year.
Display the space used between a specified time.
Chart Options
By default, the chart displays stacking bars with gridlines. You can change the
chart display from the Chart Type drop-down list.
Entity Selection
You can update your entity selection from the Plot on drop-down
list.
Based on the selected entity, expand the CommCells and/or
Cell-Client Groups nodes to select one or multiple entities.