Dell PowerProtect Data Manager for Cyber Recovery User Guide

Monitoring storage capacity

Monitor the capacity of the vault storage and the details of the associated MTrees.

1. From the Main Menu, select Infrastructure > Storage.
   By default, the page displays information about the DD systems under the Systems tab.
2. Click the Capacity tab.
   The page displays alert information and physical and logical vault storage information for the DD systems.
3. To view more information about the critical or warning alerts:
   1. Click on the top-left of the alerts pane to open the pane.
      The pane displays all critical and warning alerts for the DD systems and the MTrees in the deployment.
   2. Click a row under the Systems or the MTrees tab and click View alert details in the Details tab to view more information about that alert on the Alerts pane.
   3. Click to close the expanded pane; click Capacity to return to the initial view.
4. To view detailed information about the percentage of physical storage used, under the bottom Systems link, hover over the status bar to open a pop-up window with the details.
   If the storage capacity is between 80 and 89 percent, the status bar is yellow and is preceded by a warning icon (). If the storage capacity is 90 percent or higher, the status bar is red and is preceded by a critical icon ().
5. Click a DD system's row to open the Details pane and view additional details about the DD system:
   1. Click the system FQDN or IP address to return to the Systems Storage page.
   2. Click the number next to Active MTrees or Deleted MTrees to view the applicable MTrees associated with the DD system.
      If the file count or number of active MTrees exceeds the threshold, the number is preceded by or to indicate either a warning or critical alert.
6. To customize the columns in the table that lists the DD systems, click and select the columns to show or hide.
7. To view information about the MTrees in the deployment, click the MTrees tab.
   The FQDN or IP address of the DD systems are displayed.
8. Click a DD system's row to open the Details pane.
   The Details pane displays the FQDN or IP address of the DD system and a doughnut chart. The chart displays the consumers of the MTrees. It identifies the top four consumers, and all other consumers are in the All Others category.
9. In the Details pane, do the following:
   1. Click the FQDN or IP address of the DD system to return to the Systems tab.
   2. Click next to Purpose to filter by MTree purpose for the chart.
      The chart is updated to reflect the new purpose.
   3. Click a specific section of the chart to view the associated MTree.
   4. Under the chart, click next to MTree to filter the MTrees by logical capacity or file count.
   5. Under the MTree tab, click a specific MTree to display more details.
10. To display all the MTrees associated with a DD system, from the table, click next to its FQDN or IP address.
    1. Click the link in the Policy column in an MTree's row to be redirected to the Policies page to view information about the associated policy.
    2. Click an MTree's row to open the details pane and view additional details.
       The link next to the Policy label redirects you to the Policies page.
    3. Click to close the details pane.
    4. Click to open the details pane again.