I've been trying to find a way to keep track of capacity long term, sort of like DFM used to track on a volume basis; I am more interested in keeping track of total utilization by SVM, Qtree, and User. I wasn't able to find a viable option, so I used Grafana and PostgreSQL; I am outputing a quota report once daily, then importing that in to PostgreSQL. I can then use Grafana to report over time using a simple line graph. Funny thing is I found we are growing at 1PB per month, without efficiencies. Thank heaven for ONTAP efficiencies. #1062050414146625536
#Tracking Capacity Long Term
shrewd turret
mortal bramble
@shrewd turret Could you explore the Capacity, Capacity %, Growth Rate and Forecast Volume Capacity rows in Volume dashboard.
Volume Capacity % row in SVM dashboard and
Space Usage row in Quota dashboard.
They provides the % level capacity usage at volume, svm and quotas.
shrewd turret
Management only wants to see a single line on the main chart, I am using total sum(qtree) size; They also want to be able to go back ten or more years. So I give them on line chart showing growth, based on their selections, starting with the last three months (they can then change the time-frame. I also have a chart by User, which they can select and drill down by the user based on the highest delta during the time-frame selected. This goes to departmental managers, and they only want to see their numbers.
urban cloak
Management only wants to see a single line on the main chart🤣
I know those guys! And the line should be green!!
Seriously though, I think there is a use case for a "very simple" dashboard that would give a high level overview of the NAS status: Something similar perhaps to the opening pages when you log into nabox, but with a bit more detail and colour. The sort of thing that could then be easily tailored / customised and displayed on the big screen tv on the foyer / conf room / support centre
(Another issue would be to get that dashboard to display outside - where the management are. All the customers I have ever worked with run their storage infrastructure and management applcations inside a private / dark network.)