Dell PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide

Monitoring and managing storage containers

The Storage > Storage Containers page in the PowerStore Manager displays essential information about all storage containers in a centralized location.

The main view shows the name of each storage container, any current alerts, and capacity details. The table can be filtered, sorted, refreshed to show changes, and exported to a spreadsheet. You can perform the following actions on a storage container:

• Create a storage container.
• Change the name of a storage container. If the PowerStore cluster is connected to a vCenter Server, the name of the storage container is updated in vCenter to match the name in the PowerStore Manager.
• Limit space usage by a storage container.
• Delete a storage container.
  NOTE:You cannot delete a storage container when there are VMs on the associated storage containers in vCenter.
• Monitor current and historical space usage.

To view current and historical usage details for a storage container, select the name of the storage container. You can view data for the past two years, one month, or 24 hours, print the chart, and download the chart data as an image or CSV file. The PowerStore Manager raises an alert when usage of a storage container reaches or exceeds 85% of its available space.