Know about the avaliable storage on Symmetrix

Thanks Periyakaruppan for your help and quick response  

Symdisk list –dskgrp_summary –sid xxxx

The output would be in MB. All the configured space would be taken from the disk groups irrelevant of the pool type.

So, I hope the disk group would help you to identify the used / available space.

Regards,

Periyakaruppan N (Peri),

Okay, wen i run symconfigure -sid XXX -freespace -unit mb list it shows  formated and unformatted space.

wen i run a Symdisk list –dskgrp_summary –sid xxxx it shows free space in each diskgroup.

wen i see SMC , it shows  free space. All the 3 ways shows diffrent output ( i mean the free sizes are diffrent )

So what is the diffrence in all the above three  ? Can someone explain ?

Yes, it is.

symconfigure -sid XXX -freespace -unit mb

Periyakaruppan,

'm still confused !  what they mean  by formated /  unformated space ?  From the above  three result(as mentioned int the above post ), which one shows the exact free space avaliable on stroage ?

Overall array capacity can be collected with command “symdisk –sid xxxx list –dskgrp_summary”, which will give you the allocated / free space.

Look at the quoted total value from below output for total & free capacity. From that you can find the difference for used capacity.

Disk Group Disk Capacity

here are commands I use to run against each symmetrix in my environment.

symdev -sid 1234 list -noport > 1234data.txt

symdev -sid 1234 list -da all -space >> 1234data.txt

This would give me devices not on assigned to a channel and the available space on disk drives.