OK, so long story short the past week my 5220 appliance has been close to useless. While things hummed along nicely for the initial months (4), as expected space usage slowly began creeping up. First 60% and then 80%, but it sat in the 80's for a number of weeks, so it seemed this is where we would sort of plan to be. Well, no, within roughly 1-2 weeks, we went from this acceptable capacity to 100%. Yes, 100%, someone set highwater to 100% and in the end our appliance was cooked, Status 129 all the way, restores were not possible either, so we turned to support. After several days of cleaning things out, we managed to get to a point we could at least get the appliance online again. However, by no means did this mean we could use it. The appliance functioned as a media server, reading VM's, sending them to a data domain appliance and it seemed we were in the clear while we cleaned up more space on the 5220. But, as luck would have it, the DD also filled and we resorted to using advanced disk to stage data and then SLPs to send it to tape. Long story short, we are just getting by as things are made useful again and the only way to make the 5220 useful is to free up lots of space, so the plan is to get the largest systems off of it. I guess I would rather have several systems use the appliance and one write to tape as opposed to several to tape so that one can use the appliance.
My goal is to get a report out of opscenter that tells me what is using all of my space. I expired image after image, but each time I did I did not gain any space. In talking with support this is normal with deduplicated data and the images as each can be really small. Therefore, I need to find the ones that are really big and get them off of there until we can manage to get more appliances to increase capacity. I hunted around in opscenter, but nothing appeared to be the report I am looking for. All I want is a list of sort that says, these 5 machines use 10TB while these 300+ use 50TB and then just show me what each system is using so I can dupe those to tape and expire the images off disk. Is such a report possible? Be it SQL or with the Wizard this report would help me in a huge way.
Thanks