Monitoring storage

How do you know how much storage is used, how much is thin provisioned, and how much is free on a given profile? This recipe will show you how to answer these questions.

Getting ready

We need some datastores and profiles that have been used.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin.
  2. Click on Manage & Monitor and then on Datastores & Datastore Clusters. Here you will find a general overview of all storage available in vCloud.
    How to do it...
  3. Double-click on a datastore and you get more detailed information. Before, you saw only percentages of the storage used, while now you also get the GB value.
  4. Click on Storage Profiles.

    You see a similar overview, ...

Get VMware vCloud Director Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.