Product guide

Reporting on Your Datacenter

CHAPTER 2

Reporting on Your Datacenter

EMC Ionix ControlCenter provides many solutions for creating detailed reports of your

storage assets. Use these reports to keep track of what storage assets you have and

what group or department is using them, monitoring storage capacity and utilization,

planning for configuration changes to the datacenter, or identifying performance

problems that can severely impact business operations.

This chapter contains the following scenarios:

◆ Identifying IT assets for accounting .................................................................... 8

◆ Tracking which assets belong to a department (CTO) ........................................ 19

◆ Tracking which assets belong to a department (Operations Manager)............... 22

◆ Allocating storage for a new application ........................................................... 26

◆ Understanding how much storage is allocated to an application....................... 27

◆ Charging departments for storage use.............................................................. 31

◆ Configuring database space for a new application............................................ 36

◆ Preventing application outages due to out-of-space conditions ........................ 42

◆ Predicting storage needs more accurately......................................................... 45

◆ Pooling storage resources ................................................................................ 46

◆ Collecting utilization statistics for management................................................ 50

◆ Identifying old and large files ........................................................................... 53

◆ Identifying a host performance problem ........................................................... 59

◆ Identifying a storage array performance problem.............................................. 64