Reports

Reporting

The CloudSense™ menu provides four types of reports for a specific group. Each of the reports has a predefined format. Following are the types of CloudSense reports:

  • Billing End User Report for a Customer—This report displays the cost summary for the VM, CPU, storage, and memory utilized by the customer. It also displays the details of VM resource usage and charges.

  • Group Infrastructure Inventory Report—This report displays the server details, such as power-on status, service profiles, VLANs, vFilers, volumes under vFilers, volume groups, and vServers. This report also provides the inventory details of the virtual resources, such as VMs, images, resource pools, datastores, port groups, and DV port groups.

  • Physical Infrastructure Inventory Report for an End User Group—This report displays the details of the physical infrastructure inventory resources, such as compute, network, and storage for the specified group.

  • Storage Inventory Report for an End User Group—This report displays the details of storage inventory, such as vFilers, the top five volumes, and top five LUNs for the specified group.

Viewing a Report

    Step 1   From the menu, choose CloudSense.
    Step 2   On the CloudSense page, click the required report type.
    Step 3   In the reports table, click the row with the report that you want to view.
    Step 4   Click Open Report.
    Step 5   On the Launch Report screen, from the Format Type drop-down list, choose the format type for the report.
    Step 6   Click Submit. The selected report appears in a separate window.

    Emailing a Report

      Step 1   From the menu, choose CloudSense.
      Step 2   On the CloudSense page, click the required report type.
      Step 3   In the reports table, click the row with the report that you want to email.
      Step 4   Click Email Report.
      Step 5   On the Email Report screen, complete the required fields, including the following:
      1. In the To field, enter the recipient address.
      2. Modify the subject, if necessary.
      3. From the Format Type drop-down list, choose the format type for the report to be attached.
      Step 6   Click Submit. A message appears confirming the success or failure of the email.