Storage Report Management
This section describes the functions and application scenarios of storage report management.
Definition
eSight provides storage reports including the capacity reports, performance reports, and customized reports. Users can intuitively view the health status and capacity usage of storage devices, shorten maintenance time, reduce O&M costs, and improve storage utilization.
Benefits
The system collects and displays usage of indicators such as the device capacity and performance, predicts the usage trend based on historical data, and provides analysis reports.
Functions
eSight storage reports are classified into capacity reports, performance reports, and customized reports.
Capacity reports and performance reports are static reports. Different types of resources related to capacity or performance are centrally displayed in the same report from different dimensions. Customized reports allow you to combine capacity or performance indicators from different dimensions based on the site requirements.
Capacity Reports
Storage capacity reports provide the following functions:
- Query the device capacity. The reports display the device capacity usage, usage trend, and capacity trend in the last three months.
- Predict the capacity. The reports predict storage capacity based on historical capacity data.
- Provide capacity expansion suggestions. The reports allow users to configure the storage capacity threshold and provides capacity expansion suggestions when the capacity usage exceeds the threshold.
Performance Reports
Storage performance reports provide the following functions:
- Collect statistics on KPIs. The reports display the KPI trend chart of devices, and collect and analyze KPIs.
- Customize period-to-period comparison. The performance indicator trend chart supports period-to-period comparison by customized period.
- Select an area on the chart. Users can select a time range on the performance indicator trend chart to zoom in on the data.
Customized Reports
Customized reports provide the following functions:
- Provide predefined maintenance analysis reports. The predefined reports include the enterprise storage capacity report, host capacity report, and resource capacity report.
- Customize reports in drag-and-drop mode. Users can customize a predefined report or create a report.
- Automatically and periodically generate reports. Users can create scheduled tasks to generate reports periodically and automatically.
Periodic Report Export
Users can configure to export customized reports and dashboards at scheduled time.
Principle
The following figure shows the storage report principle.
- After storage devices are connected, the storage report module obtains device information from the storage subnet management module and report management module, and generates a storage report view.
- Users can create customized reports based on the site requirements.