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ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser 14.0 User's Guide

6.6.2 Capacity management

Changes in the Thin Provisioning Pool capacity must be understood in order to draw up plans for adding disks that suit the usage circumstances. The Capacity management window displays graphs of changes in the Thin Provisioning Pool capacity and the capacity used, now and in the past. This enables users to know when to add physical disks to the Thin Provisioning Pool, and simplifies the revision of threshold value settings.

The Capacity management window is started from the Thin Provisioning Pool monitor window.

Start procedure for Capacity management window
  1. In the Resource management window menu, select [File] - [Thin Provisioning Pool monitor window].

  2. In the started Thin Provisioning Pool monitor window, select the Thin Provisioning Pool in one of the following ways:

    • In the tree, select the Thin Provisioning Pool.

    • In the tree, select the device that has registered the Thin Provisioning Pool, then in the table, select the Thin Provisioning Pool(multiple Thin Provisioning Pool can be selected).

  3. Start the Capacity management windows in one of the following ways:

    • In the Thin Provisioning Pool monitor window menu, select [Operation] - [Capacity management window].

    • If selecting the Thin Provisioning Pool in the tree, right-click and in the context menu, select [Capacity management window].

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For details of the Capacity management window, refer to "B.11.6 Capacity management window".

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Values displayed on the graph are obtained by the polling service at one o'clock every day. The polling execution time can be customized. For details, refer to "C.13 Polling Service Setting File".