Storage Report
This report depicts the system storage and information about devices that have been created on the system. Storage includes both Internal storage, which is storage on the system itself, or storage managed over the network through various methods, such as NFS or CIFS (for a NAS), or iSCSI or FC (for a SAN). Backups are stored on a higher-level logical construct called the device, which are created by the user on storage with Backups as its usage.
Each row of the report may contain the following information:
- System. The name of the system on which the storage is defined.
- Storage. The name of the storage, or "Internal" if it is initially-configured Internal storage.
- Type. The type of storage, e.g., Internal, NAS, iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, etc.
- Usage. An identifier indicating the usage of the storage (this is not shown for Internal storage). For example, NAS storage added for Archiving will be shown with an Archive usage, while storage added to a virtual system may also have a Backups or Vaulting usage.
- Device. If the storage has a Backups usage, one or more devices may be created on it. This field indicates this device name. All appliances are set up initially with one device, named D2DBackups.
- Size (GB). The size of the storage or device.
- Hostname. For NAS or iSCSI storage, the hostname on which the storage resides.
- Port. For NAS or iSCSI storage, the network port used by the storage.
- Share. For NAS storage, the name of the share associated with the storage.
- Protocol. For NAS storage, the protocol used, either CIFS (samba) or NFS.
- Online. Indicates whether or not the storage or device (if the row is for a device on backups storage) is online or not.
Please note that not all of this information is displayed by default; use the column chooser in the lower right part of the pane to choose information to display and to hide. A complete description of all of the selection mechanisms available to manage the display of the report may be found at this link.