Does anyone know if there is a way to configure a report which will display the size of the volumes on a guest OS for a single VM?
For example, I want to know how big partition C: ; D: ; E: ; F: and G: are on ABC123 and how they have grown over the last month.
I'm currently running the most recent version of VEEAM ONE.
I would also look to have this report auto-generated and sent to a specific admin for that VM if that was possible (not essential but it would make my job easier!!)
Apologies if this is a simple thing to ask, I'm a bit new to VEEAM
For that demand we have Custom Infrastructure report which you can modify up to your needs.
You can select virtual machine as an object and then pick the parameters you need for the virtual disks and their partitions (you might need: "Name", "Virtual Disk:Size Total", "Virtual Disk:Size", Partition: Name, Partition: Capacity (GB), Partition: Free space (GB) etc.).
By the way, we are working on a particular report which is going to include statistical growth information about VMs` partitions for adjustable time interval, calculate daily growth of each partition and number of days to reach preset threshold.
Would you like anything else to be included to that kind of report? Thanks!
Thank you so much for your reply - I have now managed to get the report template created and it is pulling exactly the information I need!
I do, however, have one more question. Each partition on the server I am pulling the information from has different names for each partition. For example, D: is Archive 1 (D:); E: is Archive 2 (E:); F: is SQL_Data (F:) etc. Is there anyway to pull these names into the report? This would make it much easier when viewing the report so the sysadmin can see which partition needs attention and what function it performs.
As I have it at the moment, it will only show me C: ; D: ; E: ; F: etc as the Partition Name.
If you would like to know space usage for a VM disk, and not for Guest OS volume, then please take a look at this post from Nikita > Reporting the actual disk usage of VM's
You can review that in Veeam ONE Monitor Client at the individual VM tab or at the all VMs tab. As regards the reports, you need to export guest OS disk usage report to Excel via built-in capabilities and then use this formula (Capacity - Free Space) to get the details you need.
As to the already predefined report property for used space, then it should be available in updated version of guest OS disk usage report that is going to be available in v9. Nikita, can confirm that if you want.
I can see the disk usage per VM in the Monitor application however what I am ultimately after is the total usage of all the volumes together. I look forward to hopefully seeing this be available in v9.
Thanks for reminding us to update the topic! Guest Disk Free Space is what we were talking about. Usage of VM volumes can be found in drill-down of a particular VM.
Thanks!
To get the raw data, you can generate VMware Raw Performance Data report with deisred parameters (Object Type=VM, Monitor Subsystems=Guest Disk, Metrics=Guest Disk: Guest Disk Usage).
Thanks!
You can save Guest Disk Free Space report in .xlsx format to get the current data of those partitions, historical raw data about partitions is not currently available, but we can provide it in future versions.
Could you describe your case why the data is needed?
Thanks!
I usually need a per disk statistic for our file servers. There are some times when they quickly grow and find out that this happened later in the future.
Having multiple disks per VM makes it difficult to pinpoint which disk has actually grown and when. After finding the culprit we have a better chance of finding the cause (usually user carelessness).
Thanks for the clarification!
We are going to provide raw data for each volume, but looks like mentioned Guest Disk Free Space report fits you better since it analyses trends and shows you volumes(partitions) which are running out of space soon.
Shestakov wrote: but looks like mentioned Guest Disk Free Space report fits you better since it analyses trends and shows you volumes(partitions) which are running out of space soon.
It does and it doesn't. Although we can see per disk trends, we still don't know when the increase happened. If accessing the individual VM from the report we can see the chart but timeline is to wide to actually find a specific date.
One question though, if Veeam ONE is able to create a chart for individual guest disks, how can I access the raw source data that it uses to create it?
PS: Exporting to excel is the same as the web version, no additional information included.
