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Use the Consumption reports to view and export details of how storage on file servers is allocated and is being used. You can create these reports for all configured data repositories or for selected file servers, shares, SharePoint Web applications, or SharePoint site collections.
The Consumption reports help you identify the user accounts or departments that are placing the most burden on your storage resources. You can also use the information in the report to assign departmental charge back.
Each report contains a summary table. For each user or department, you can drill down the summary table to display statistics for the following parameters:
The total space occupied by files created by the user.
The total files created by the user.
The name of the business unit to which the user belongs.
The owner of the business unit.
Note the following about the information captured by the Consumption reports:
Data Insight computes the number of records as the top N files based on the file size for every data owner or for every device path in the report input.
For example, during report configuration the input path is one share, \\<Filer 1>\<Share 1> and the Number of records = 5.
In this case the report computes the owner of each file on the share, and lists the top 5 files based on size for every data owner.
Let us say Share 1 has total 30 files, such that 10 files are owned by UserA, 10 by UserB and 10 by UserC. In this case, the report displays 15 files. (The top 5 files based on size owned by UserA, UserB, and UserC.
For example, during report configuration the input path , \\<Filer 1>\<Share 1>, \\<Filer 1>\<Share 2>, and the Number of records = 10.
Let us say Share 1 has total 20 files, such that 10 files are owned by UserA and 10 by UserB.
Share 2 has total 20 files, 10 files owned by UserA and 10 files by UserC. In this case, the report displays the following output:. (The top 5 files based on size owned by UserA, UserB, and UserC for every share.
The report does not return deleted files and files with size 0KB in the output.
For SharePoint file path, size on disk is not applicable; report will always return size on disk as zero.