Using sample reports

VOM Advanced provides the sample reports that you can use to make more informed business decisions about datacenter storage. You can enhance sample reports by making changes, such as the following:

The various sample reports fall into the following major categories:

Administrative

View information about the running of VOM Advanced, such as licensing and rollup status.

Dashboard

Get summary information about SAN storage and Storage Foundation hosts.

Inventory

List the objects in your storage environment by object type (array, operating system, and database).

Licensing

View information about the number of Storage Foundation host licenses deployed in your environment, and the status of those licenses (such as active or expired).

Operational

Interact with the lists that give you detailed insight into databases, and the file systems that are running low on resources.

Reclamation

See where unused storage can be reclaimed.

Storage Allocation and Chargeback

View the allocation of array storage to hosts by tiers. You can also see storage allocation costs.

Utilization

Get insight into how efficiently you are running your storage environment. Includes array, host, and database utilization subcategories. Includes an enterprise storage summary, waterfall report, and waterfall summary.

To run sample reports

  1. From the VOM Advanced Console, in the View Reports tree at the left, expand the folders to see the report categories.
  2. Click a report.

    The report displays in the workspace on the right.

  3. Optionally, do any of the following:
    • To email the report, in the top right of the workspace, click the Email icon.

    • To run the report with updated data or to run the report and display any prompts that were set with the report, click the Run icon.

    • To generate the report in other formats, click the View in HTML, View in PDF, View in Excel, or View in XML icons.

More Information

About reports