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Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 561

15 Finding an Element’s Storage Capacity

IMPORTANT:

Depending on your license, Capacity Manager may not be available. See the “List

of Features” to determine if you have access to Capacity Manager. The “List of Features” is

accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

This chapter describes the following:

About Capacity Manager

” on page 561

Accessing Capacity Manager

” on page 563

About the Toolbars in Capacity Manager

” on page 563

Finding the Capacity of an Element

” on page 567

Obtaining Utilization Reports

” on page 571

Printing Elements in Capacity Manager

” on page 572

Viewing Capacity Charts

” on page 573

Viewing Trending Information for Storage Capacity

” on page 575

Different Results for the df -k Command and Capacity Manager

” on page 576

About Capacity Manager

IMPORTANT:

Depending on your license, Capacity Manager may not be available. See the “List

of Features” to determine if you have access to Capacity Manager. The “List of Features” is

accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

Capacity Manager provides graphical representation of an element's storage capacity and

utilization in the storage network. It provides the following tabs:

List

Path

Utilization

Capacity Data

Capacity Chart

Capacity Manager provides a different set of information for NetApp NAS devices. For more

information, see

Capacity Information for NetApp NAS Devices

” on page 568.

Keep in mind the following:

The Capacity Manager displays the total capacity of an application, including the network

drives. If you look at the capacity of the application in Chargeback Manager, the capacity

differs. Chargeback Manager provides only network capacity. See ”

Capacity in Chargeback

Manager and Capacity Manager Differ

” on page 622 for more information.