Forecast capacity

About this task

Forecast capacity using the historic capacity data of your storage device. You can forecast the capacity for different resource types such as Storage devices, pools, tiers, STaaS environments.

Procedure

  1. From the Insights menu, click Capacity Planning. By default, Block Storage System are displayed.
  2. Click on Resource type drop down list to select the storage device type.
  3. Choose one or more device or a STaaS environment and click Next.
  4. Click on selected storage systems to change the date.
  5. Enter the past and future dates in Forecasting Timeframe and click Apply.
  6. You will get the metrics in Forecasted Growth and a chart that show the predicted capacity growth in Growth Projection of the resources.
  7. In Expected Growth Forecast column, enter percentage value in Forecasted Growth to get the forecast values of your resources.
    Important: If you select multiple devices, two tabs Aggregate and BreakDown will appear. To check values of each storage device click BreakDown tab and select the device.