Findout the Storage Box utilization

Sam_nura · New User Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Bangalore

HI,
How to find out the storage box utilization/free space? I knew one storage box may shared between number of Lpar's.So it is not possible to get the information from Lpar basis? So is there any solution to find out this?

expat · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:27 pm

What exactly are you doing here.

Do you want the figures representing the utilised space for all devices within a given UCB range.

Sam_nura · New User Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Bangalore

Hi expat,
Just I want to know the total free space for entire storage box? Please let me know if you need any additional information?

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:43 pm

Contact your site storage group and ask them would be my first suggestion. Since some of the storage may be dedicated to systems other than mainframes, you really need to have at least three categories -- mainframe storage allocated to something, mainframe storage not allocated to something, and non-mainframe storage.

expat · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:45 pm

The best bet would be to ask your storage management people, and /or your performance / capacity planning people.

What different SMS STORGRPS are on a box can effect its utilisation at any given time, so possibly statistics during the day will mean nothing overnight.

Perhaps if you say why you need to know this, it may help figure out a solution.

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Sam_nura · New User Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Bangalore

Hi Robert,
Currently we are having dedicated storage for mainframe.

Sam_nura · New User Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Bangalore

Hi expat,
In a storage box N number of volumes used by N number lpar’s. Same way N volumes will be SMS managed also N volumes will be Non SMS managed. So here I am trying to get the consolidated free space report/info for entire storage box.

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:08 pm

As you've been told -- twice -- contact your site storage group. They are the ones who can provide you this information in the easiest and most effective way possible. If you are not a storage administrator, you probably do not have the access required to generate such a report.