Every organization is different (even having different rules around different arrays) and will probably give you a different answer, because even the question of "capacity reporting" means different things to different people.

From the business side, they seemed more interested in how much "total capacity" (i.e. RAW) total capacity was purchased, so they ask for utilization against this total.  Obviously, we'll never be 100% utilized because of this fact, but for accounting purposes, that's what they wish to use for chargeback to departments.

From my management team, they're interested in the "usable capacity" - how much is allocated, to whom, and how much capacity remains.  They're also interested in cost/space savings from compression and deduplication, as well as "losses" due to space used for clones, snapshots and replication.

All of the above are things provided from VNX M&R, ProSphere, Data Protection Advisor and other tools we already have in place.

Can you provide more detail with the "customized report" you need?  What are you looking for that's not available in the tools you have?

Hi Karl

thanks for the response .

i was evaluating vnx m&r and Prosphere ,

with VNX M&R  , i wanted to combine   Block Systems Array summary, Lun Capacity, Raid groups, Storage groups , storage pools report to one report and send across to mgmt.  So they have one  detailed report.

with prosphere the reporting was not that good compared to VNX M&R and did not give much reporting features.

worked well for vmware environment. 
The Dashboard of proshpere gives me holistic picture with graphs and tables which is good for mgmt to view but there is  no option to send this dashboard as email / report.

The explorer  Tab in proshpere gives me sufficent information but i need to drill down to each array to get more information .

i cant generate one report to get information of Storage pool , Raid groups . storage groups , luns etc.

EMC has sold us pro sphere ,

i felt vnx M&R gives a better reports for mgmt purpose.

pls let me know if there is a way we can consolidate reports.    

Hi,

VNX M&R provides a number of fixed pre-defined reports – it doesn’t have to capability for custom reports.

Customer reports are possible with the W4N product that uses the same metrics as M&R.

I would suggest to check if your ProSphere license includes W4N

Harsha-

1)Go to Open Reporting Interface(top right corner, it will open a new tab)

2) Go to Tools(top right corner which is present in new window) then click on Report Wizard...

you can build your own custom reports...

Is this something that you are looking for ?