SM L04 Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 4.0 RU1: Optimize Your Heterogeneous Storage Environment Hands-On Lab Description Veritas Operations Manager Advanced (VOM Advanced) is a comprehensive discovery and reporting platform that will help you gain visibility into storage usage as well as increase and maintain high storage utilization across multiple data centers by providing an enterprise wide view. It is a premium offering that extends the functionality provided by the Veritas Operations Manager and goes beyond Storage Foundation and Cluster Server environments to discover native OS and Virtual environments as well. This lab will give you a look into some of the capabilities of VOM Advanced, which should allow you to better understand its potential and how it can help you get better utilization out of your existing configurations and unlock even more value from your SFHA configurations.
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SM L04 Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 4.0 RU1:
Optimize Your Heterogeneous Storage Environment
Hands-On Lab
Description Veritas Operations Manager Advanced (VOM Advanced) is a comprehensive discovery and reporting platform that will help you gain visibility into storage usage as well as increase and maintain high storage utilization across multiple data centers by providing an enterprise wide view.
It is a premium offering that extends the functionality provided by the Veritas Operations Manager and goes beyond Storage Foundation and Cluster Server environments to discover native OS and Virtual environments as well.
This lab will give you a look into some of the capabilities of VOM Advanced, which should allow you to better understand its potential and how it can help you get better utilization out of your existing configurations and unlock even more value from your SFHA configurations.
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At the end of this lab, you should be able to
Use Business views
Understand Tiers
Reclamation Report
Are we using correct storage for our Applications
Create a custom report
Understand the reports included in VOM Advanced
Understand the detailed visibility VOM Advanced provides
Notes Be sure to ask your instructor any questions you may have.
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Topics and estimated times: Using Business Views:
o Creating a Business View: Exercise 1 (10 min)
o Tier Configuration: Exercise 2 (4 min)
Creating Custom Reports
o Unallocated LUNs Reclamation: Exercise 3 (4 min)
o Is my Application running on the correct Storage?: Exercise 4 (10 min)
o File System Capacity: Exercise 5 (5 min)
o Allocated Array Storage: Exercise 6 (5 min)
o Allocated Storage per Business Unit: Exercise 7 (5 min)
o Unconfigured Storage per Datacenter: Exercise 8 (5 min)
Exploring Included Reports:
o Inventory: Exercise 9 (3 min)
o Operational: Exercise 10 (3 min)
o Reclamation: Exercise 11 (4 min)
o Allocation and Chargeback: Exercise 12 (5 min)
o Utilization: Exercise 13 (7 min)
Thank you for attending our lab session!
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Login to the VOM Advanced Console
Action: To begin the exercises, open the „VOM ES‟ link on the desktop and login:
1) Enter Username: vomadm
2) Enter Password (case sensitive):
Symc4now!
3) Click Login
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Lab Exercise 1
Topic – Creating a Business View and Making Assignments Duration = 10 minutes
Business Views are ways of organizing data in VOM Advanced so that the custom reports that are created can reflect the realities of your organization. They can be created to represent geographies, organizations, applications, and more. This exercise will show you the process of creating a business view.
Important: Because some time is taken for business view post-processing, we won‟t actually be creating the view in the lab environment. However, we will walk through the steps required to configure the business views that have already been created in the lab environment. The steps provided here are for your example, and you aren‟t supposed to complete them during the lab.
(This Business View is already created due to time but please go through the exercise just to get an idea how to create a Business View)
Creating a Business View
Action: Go to the Manage -> Business Views
Then we would click on the to create a new Business View.
Action: Select Object Types Array, Filesystem, Host and Volume
We would then populate the Name, Object Types, and Levels. For example:
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Next we would click on the in the bottom to create the 2 levels Department and Application
By clicking Add at the bottom, we will create a Business View called Sample BV that will contain Host objects and has 2 Levels: Department, Application.
When you click add, it can take 15-30 minutes to complete this process.
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Once complete, you can then assign real values and hosts to those levels. For example, you would click on Assignments and Select Sample BV under Business Views.
We can now create some example levels for Department and Application.
For example, click on the icon to Add a new Department. We‟ll type in Finance.
Add two more Departments like IT and Marketing
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Right click on Finance in the tree, and click Add Child Instance. We‟ll type in Billing for the Application.
Add SAP for Marketing
Add Oracle for IT
This will leave us with a hierarchy like:
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We could populate many more Departments and Applications. The point now is to associate hosts with those entities. So, I can assign several servers that are located in the Billing by selecting Billing on the left, then selecting the hosts in the Unassigned Objects table, and clicking the Assign button on the top.
For this example, I have added 7 hosts, but we could add many more hosts.
We will use Business Views later in the custom reports section to show how resources are allocated. This can be useful to show what datacenter certain resources are in or to show costs associated with an application.
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Lab Exercise 2
Topic – Tier Configuration Duration = 4 minutes
VOM Advanced has the ability to define custom tiers that will be automatically assigned to the storage resources in the discovered environment. They can be used to understand how those tiers are being utilized and allocated. They also have a price associated with them in order to facilitate chargeback reports, which effectively associates a cost for the storage being used by a collection of hosts or applications.
In this exercise we‟ll examine the tiering interface in VOM Advanced and explore how to define new tiers and edit existing ones.
Action: Go to Manage -> Storage Tiers
Here you will see a listing of the pre-configured tiers that come with VOM Advanced:
These can be adjusted as needed by selecting a given Tier and editing the available attributes such as the Name, Description, Cost, and the Rules for determining which LUNs fit this tier.
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Additionally, the tiers can be re-ordered by using the Up/Down Arrows on the right hand side of the Storage Tiers table. They can be named effectively anything, and will be assigned to whichever Tier matches the Rule AND has the highest rank.
Rules to define tiers can be very simple or quite complex. Next to the rule, you can click on the button to edit the specification. This will bring up the Rule Builder window, which will let you define a number of different conditions that comprise the rule. These include things like RAID Levels, Vendor, Thin or Not, and Array Model.
These tiers are then applied to the Storage details discovered by VOM Advanced, and used in such reports as Arrays Allocating Tiered Storage, Hosts with Allocated Tiered Storage, Tiered Storage Summary, SAN Chargeback, Host Storage Allocation.
To help controlling the datacenter cost by indentify storage waste, remediate the storage waste and help promote a more responsible use of storage this exercise will walk you through the process of using a canned report for showing unclaimed or unassigned LUNs by host using the canned report that are part of VOM Advanced. By selecting the host in a VOM Advanced ES report you will be directed to the VOM MS where the host is being managed. Here you can reclaim storage identified in the report.
Action: Go to Sample Reports -> Reclamation and select: Allocated LUNs Reclamation
Now we want to select the Host VOM_MS
Action: Click on the drop down window Change Scope and select the host: VOM_MS
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This will show all Potentially Unassigned LUN's and Unclaimed LUN's for VOM_MS
Now to verify that these LUN's is unassigned:
Action: Click on the highlighted host name VOM_MS name in the report and this will open a browser window to the VOM MS which are managing the Host
(VOM MS username / password = vomadm / symc4now)
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Action: Click on the LUN Tab and you will see 2 unused LUNs.
These 2 LUN‟s can now be:
Add to an existing Disk Group (Go to Disk Group and select Add Disk to Disk Group)
Create a new Disk Group
Send notice to the Storage Team to unmask the LUNs and reused for another server.
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Lab Exercise 4
Topic – Is my Application running on the correct Storage? Duration = 10 minutes
To minimize the risk of performance problems, data loss by using Tier storage which is not setup for replication, mirroring or snapshot type of backup. Most Tier 1 storage is Fast, using mirroring and replication and has a fast way of backup/restore where lower tiering is more for slower, cheaper storage for non-critical application. This exercise will walk you through the process of creating a custom report showing what Tiering your Application is running on.. By using Tier to determine what type of storage you have you can easily check if you‟re Application is running on the right type of storage.
Action: Go to Home
Action: In the upper right hand corner of the main window, click on the icon to create a new Ad Hoc Report.
Action: Select Host Storage Allocation from the list of all packages.
You will then be presented with a list of capacity metrics to choose from that you can use to build the custom report.
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Action: Expand Host Storage Allocation
Action: Expand Host Storage Allocation Metrics
Action: Select Capacity Allocated to Host Directly (GB) from the tree on the left
Action: Click the button to add that metric to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Next will select the Tier levels
Action: Expand Host Storage Allocation Views
Action: Expand By Host
Action: Expand LUN
Action: Scroll down and select Tier
Action: Click on the header “Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB)” so it gets highlighted in Orange to have the Tier insert to be before the “Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB)” column.
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
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Now we will do a little more customization of the data we see here.
Action: In the report view, right click on Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB), and select Format Data.
Action: Select Category of Number, and leave decimal places at 2. Click OK at the bottom.
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Next will select the Host levels
Action: Expand Host by Sample_BV
Action: Select Host
Action: Click on the header “Tier” so it gets highlighted in Orange to have the Host insert to be before the “Tier” column.
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Last we will select the Application from the Host by Sample_BV
Action: Expand Host by Sample_BV
Action: Click on the header “Host” in the report so it gets highlighted in Orange to have the Application insert to be before the “Host” column.
Action: Select Application
Action: Click the button to add that to the report.
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Now we will do a little more customization of the data we see here so we can see which Host has different Tier levels.
Action: In the report view, click on the Host Column, and click Group in upper right corner.
You will get a report looking like this:
Group
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The Final customization of the data will be Group by Tier levels.
Action: In the report view, right click on Tier Column, and click Group in upper right corner.
You will get a report looking like this:
Action: In the Report view, Click on the Title
Action: Give the Report a name, such as Tier Storage Allocation for Host in Sample_BV
Now we have created the report, let‟s save it.
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Action: In the toolbar, click on to Save the report.
Action: Give it a name, an optional description and screen tip,
Action: Click on Select My Folders under location to save it in My Folders
Action: Click OK to save the Report.
Action: Close the window and Navigate to Home
Action: Expand My Folders and select the custom report
This was an Example of how to find Application with incorrect storage which can create Performance issues for the Application (Slow Tier 2,3,4 compare to fast Tier Storage), Risk due to missing replication (Only Tier 1 could have replicated Lun)…..
This exercise will walk you through the process of creating a custom report for showing the total file system capacity by operating system using the custom report capabilities that are part of VOM Advanced.
Action: Go to Home
Action: In the upper right hand corner of the main window, click on the icon to create a new Ad Hoc Report.
Action: Select Host Consumption from the list of all packages.
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You will then be presented with a list of capacity metrics to choose from that you can use to build the custom report.
Action: Expand Host Consumption (Cluster Aware)
Action: Expand File System Metrics
Action: Select File System Capacity (Cluster Aware) from the tree on the left
Action: Click the button to add that metric to the report. You will get something that looks like:
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Action: Back in the tree, expand Host Consumption Views, Expand By Host Attribute, Expand Host
Action: Scroll down and select OS Type
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Now we will do a little more customization of the data we see here.
Action: In the report view, right click on File System Capacity (Cluster Aware), and select Format Data.
Action: Select Category of Number, and leave decimal places at 2. Click OK at the bottom.
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Action: In the Report view, Click on the Title
Action: Give the Report a name, such as Total File System Capacity by Operating System
Now we have created the report, let‟s save it.
Action: In the toolbar, click on to Save the report.
Action: Give it a name, an optional description and screen tip,
Action: Click on Select My Folders under location to save it in My Folders
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Action: Click OK to save the Report.
Action: Close the window and Navigate to Home
Action: Expand My Folders and select the custom report
We have now created a very simple report to demonstrate the amount of file system capacity by operating system that uses a metric that is cluster aware (doesn‟t double count for file systems that are shared across nodes).
To accelerate your operation for remediation this report can help find the servers with most allocated storage in this case we want to look at our Linux servers. This can help when you have hundreds or thousands of servers and got the message “Go out and find some storage we can reclaim” but you really don‟t know where to start. This exercise will walk you through the process of creating a custom report for showing the Linux hosts with more than 1000 GB of allocated array storage using the custom report capabilities that are part of VOM Advanced.
Action: Go to Home
Action: In the upper right hand corner of the main window, click on the icon to create a new Ad Hoc Report.
Action: Select Host Storage Allocation from the list of all packages.
You will then be presented with a list of capacity metrics to choose from that you can use to build the custom report.
Action: Expand Host Storage Allocation
Action: Expand Host Storage Allocation Metrics
Action: Select Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB)
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
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Action: Expand Host Storage Allocation Views, expand By Host
Action: Select Host
Action: Click on the header “Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB)” so it gets highlighted in Yellow to have the next insert to be before this column.
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Action: Under Host Storage Allocation Views, expand Host
Action: Click on the header “Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB)” so it gets highlighted in Yellow to have the next insert to be before this column.
Action: Select OS Type
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Now we will do a little more customization of the data we see here.
Action: In the report view, right click on Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB), and select Format Data.
Action: Select Category of Number, and leave decimal places at 2. Click OK at the bottom.
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Action: Select Category of Number, and leave decimal places at 2. Click OK at the bottom.
Action: In the report view, right click on Capacity Allocated to Hosts Directly (GB), and select Filter.
Action: In the From: field, type in the value 1000. Click OK at the bottom.
Action: In the report view, right click on OS Type, and select Filter.
Action: In the Condition: field, select Linux. Click OK at the bottom. Click OK again.
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Action: In the Report view, Click on the Title
Action: Give the Report a name, such as Linux hosts with more than 1000 GB of allocated array storage
Action: Uncheck show filters, Click OK
Now we have created the report, let‟s save it.
Action: In the toolbar, click on to Save the report.
Action: Give it a name, an optional description and screen tip,
Action: Click on Select My Folders under location to save it in My Folders
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Action: Click OK to save the Report.
Action: Close the window and Navigate to Home
Action: Expand My Folders and select the custom report
We have now created a very simple report to demonstrate the Linux hosts with more than 1TB of allocated array storage.
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Lab Exercise 7
Topic – Custom Allocated Storage per Business Unit Report Duration = 5 minutes
Who in our organization is using our storage? This exercise will walk you through the process of creating a custom report for showing the Storage allocated to each business unit using the custom report capabilities that are part of VOM Advanced. We will be using the Business Units Business View that is pre-created in the lab environment for this report.
Action: Go to Home
Action: In the upper right hand corner of the main window, click on the icon to create a new Ad Hoc Report.
Action: Select Host Consumption from the list of all packages.
You will then be presented with a list of capacity metrics to choose from that you can use to build the custom report.
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
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Action: Expand Host Consumption Views
Action: Expand By Host Attribute
Action: Click on the header “Total Allocated (Cluster Aware)” so it gets highlighted in Yellow to have the next insert to be before this column.
Action: Select Host
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Action: Expand Host by Organization
Action: Click on the header “Host)” so it gets highlighted in Yellow to have the next insert to be before this column
Action: Select Business Unit
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
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Now we will do a little more customization of the data we see here.
Action: In the report view, right click on Total Allocated (Cluster Aware), and select Format Data.
Action: Select Category of Number, and leave decimal places at 2. Click OK at the bottom.
Action: In the report view, right click on Host, and select Sort.
Action: Select Sort Order, and select Ascending (A to Z). Click OK at the bottom. Action: Select the Business Unit column header in the report table.
Action: Click the icon in the toolbar to group by Business Unit.
Action: Select the Business Unit column header in the report table.
Action: Click the icon in the toolbar to summarize by Business Unit.
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Action: In the Report view, Click on the Title
Action: Give the Report a name, such as Storage allocated to each business unit Action: Uncheck show sorts, Click OK
Now we have created the report, let‟s save it.
Action: In the toolbar, click on to Save the report.
Action: Give it a name, an optional description and screen tip,
Action: Click on Select My Folders under location to save it in My Folders
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Action: Click OK to save the Report.
Action: Close the window and Navigate to Home
Action: Expand My Folders and select the custom report
We have now created a report to demonstrate the storage allocated to hosts organized by Business unit. If you navigate down to the bottom and page through the report, you will see the data is also summarized by Business unit, so you can see the total allocated to the business unit as well as each host associated with that business unit.
The strength of VOM Advanced ES is the rollup from multiple VOM servers located around the world and in this way we can show them quickly where all their storage is located. This exercise will walk you through the process of creating a custom report for showing the amount of configured storage in each data center. We will be using the Datacenters Business View that is pre-created in the lab environment for this report.
Action: Go to Home
Action: In the upper right hand corner of the main window, click on the icon to create a new Ad Hoc Report.
Action: Select Array Analysis from the list of all packages.
You will then be presented with a list of capacity metrics to choose from that you can use to build the custom report.
Action: Expand Array Analysis
Action: Expand Array Capacity Metrics
Action: Select Total Array Capacity (GB)
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Action: Expand Array Analysis Filters
Action: Select Most Recent Array Analysis Metrics
Action: Click the button to add that to the report.
Action: Select Most Recent Array Analysis Inventory
Action: Click the button to add that to the report.
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Action: In the report view, right click on Unconfigured Capacity (GB), and select Format Data.
Action: Select Category of Number, and leave decimal places at 2. Click OK at the bottom.
Action: Expand Array Analysis Views
Action: Expand Array by Geography
Action: Select Datacenter
Action: Click the button to add that to the report. You will get something that looks like:
Now we will do a little more customization of the data we see here.
Action: In the report view, right click on Total Array Capacity (GB), and select Filter.
Action: In the From: field, type in the value 1. Click OK at the bottom.
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Action: In the Report view, Click on the Title
Action: Give the Report a name, such as Total Array Capacity in each data center
Action: Uncheck show sorts, Click OK
Now, let‟s add a chart to this to provide a graphical representation of this data.
Action: In the Report view toolbar, click the icon to add a Chart
Action: Select Chart type: as Pie and click OK
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You should see something like:
Now we have created the report, let‟s save it.
Action: In the toolbar, click on to Save the report.
Action: Give it a name, an optional description and screen tip,
Action: Click on Select My Folders under location to save it in My Folders
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Action: Click OK to save the Report.
Action: Close the window and Navigate to Home
Action: Expand My Folders and select the custom report
We have now created a report to demonstrate the unconfigured storage associated with each Data Center. You can click on the Datacenter code (MUC, MTV, etc) to see information about the arrays and how much unconfigured storage is associated with each. For example:
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Lab Exercise 9
Topic – Inventory Reports Duration = 3 minutes
VOM Advanced includes many built in reports that can be used as-is or as the base for all sorts of custom reports. We‟ll explore the customization aspects of the product a little later in this lab. For this exercise we will focus in on the included Inventory Reports. I encourage you to explore the reports in the lab environment to get comfortable with the interface and navigation.
VOM Advanced includes many built in reports that can be used as-is or as the base for all sorts of custom reports. We‟ll explore the customization aspects of the product a little later in this lab. For this exercise we will focus in on the included Operational Reports. I encourage you to explore the reports in the lab environment to get comfortable with the interface and navigation.
Action: Click on Arrays with Least Available Storage
Action: Click on Databases with Least Available Storage
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Action: Click on Hosts with Least Available Database Capacity
Action: Click on Hosts with Least Available File System Capacity
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Lab Exercise 11
Topic – Reclamation Reports Duration = 4 minutes
VOM Advanced includes many built in reports that can be used as-is or as the base for all sorts of custom reports. We‟ll explore the customization aspects of the product a little later in this lab. For this exercise we will focus in on the included Reclamation Reports. I encourage you to explore the reports in the lab environment to get comfortable with the interface and navigation.
VOM Advanced includes many built in reports that can be used as-is or as the base for all sorts of custom reports. We‟ll explore the customization aspects of the product a little later in this lab. For this exercise we will focus in on the included Allocation and Chargeback Reports. I encourage you to explore the reports in the lab environment to get comfortable with the interface and navigation.
Action: Click on Arrays Allocating Storage to Hosts
Action: Click on Arrays Allocating Tiered Storage
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Action: Click on Enterprise Storage Visibility Report
Action: Click on Host Chargeback Summary
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Action: Click on Host Chargeback Detail
Action: Click on Host Storage Allocation Summary
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Action: Click on Host Storage Allocation Detail
Action: Click on Hosts with Allocated Tiered Storage
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Action: Click on SAN Chargeback Summary
Action: Click on SAN Chargeback Details
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Action: Click on Tiered Storage Summary
Action: Click on VMware Virtual machine Chargeback Summary
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Lab Exercise 13
Topic – Utilization Reports Duration = 6 minutes
VOM Advanced includes many built in reports that can be used as-is or as the base for all sorts of custom reports. We‟ll explore the customization aspects of the product a little later in this lab. For this exercise we will focus in on the included Utilization Reports. I encourage you to explore the reports in the lab environment to get comfortable with the interface and navigation.
