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Which version of storage scope ? The new 6.0 or the one that comes with the old ECC 5.2 ?

StorageScope 6. I've also installed the queries update that is on disk 4 of ControlCenter 6, but there aren't any queries/reports that are useful. My management has asked for a list of:

How much disk total in the box by tier (73, 146, 300, 500)
How much disk is carved by tier (73, 146, 300, 500)
How much disk is uncarved by tier (73, 146, 300, 500)
How much disk is replicated an by which tier

I find it baffling how complicated StorageScope is to create a report of this simplicity.

The easiest way to do this is to ask you friendly local CE to give you a report on what's in your box.
He then will produce a list of disk groups. Each group has a certain number of disks, grouped by capacity, so for example group 1 is 50 x 73GB, group 2 is 256 x 146GB, group 3 is 128 x 146GB (yes, you can have multiple groups of the same sort of disks) and so forth.
Then he can easily produce a list of "normal" devices, BCVs, whatever you ask for. For him it's a matter of copy / paste from the service console.

So if your manager needs this info in a hurry, I'd suggest this way and work out another automated way after that.

I would also create storage pools in ECC and (manually) add devices in there, so you can easily view the free space in each storage pool (and what's used from each pool). You can for example have a pool of BCV which are located on 73GB disks, another pool of RAID5 standard devices based on 300GB disk and so on...

The storage pool concept is exactly what I am using, the only problem is that it doesn't calculate RAW capacity. Another option I can use to calculate raw is symdisk -by_diskgroup, but again, doesn't make for "quick" calculation and chargeback.

Thanks for the response. It's good to know that I haven't missed anything in StorageScope.

Well, I don't know if you can report unused RAW storage using SS. Contact your CE and he can tell you for sure !

You seem very proficient with the 6.0 STS. I've been trying to re-create a 5.2 report (Connectivity:Switch Ports - Unidentified Ports) with the 6.0 query tool with no luck at all. Any ideas? Thanks.

Have you tried installing the 5.2 queries that come on Disk 4? Not sure if the specific report you want is on that CD, but there are some extra reports.

Still struggling a bit with the query tool myself though it does have a lot of potential.

Hi Vince,

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Thanks,

David D. Ward
EMC Resource Management Software Group
Forums Moderator/Host

To see Switch ports connected to unidentified ports:
1. Go to Analysis -> SRM Views -> Switches
2. Click on the switch that you want to see
3. Click Tab "Switch Ports"
4. There is a drop down menu "Ports Connected to Unidentified Ports or Free Ports"

Hi,

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