Storage Metrics

Oracle Pulse provides storage metrics for all your organization's services. Storage usage metrics can be useful in detecting unusual storage consumption, pinpointing the source of each anomaly, and understanding when your storage usage is approaching current entitlement. For example, this can be useful in identifying services that consume a disproportionate amount of storage.

Your storage entitlement is the amount of storage included within the services contract for the service or set of services that your organization has purchased. This includes a base entitlement, and any additional storage purchased either initially or through additions to the contract. Your organization's entitlement is tracked manually by your Oracle customer management team.

Using Oracle Pulse, you can monitor both your organization's storage entitlement and the amount of storage your organization consumes. Storage resources can be located @customer or @partner, termed customer-owned storage. Customer-owned storage includes all storage located in your organization's data centers and those belonging to partner organizations. It also includes any Oracle Exadata and Exalogic servers that your organization owns in Oracle data centers. Oracle-owned storage covers all storage used in Oracle services Data Centers, excluding any servers that your organization owns.

Consumed storage includes the amount of commercial storage allocated for your organization's services on Oracle-owned storage. Commercial storage usually includes all storage used by applications such as Oracle^® E-Business Suite and the tools needed to run those applications. Tools could include Oracle Database storage or Database and application software. Commercial storage excludes mirrored file systems, backups, and other items that are considered non-commercial storage.

Consumed storage is deducted from your running storage entitlement. The consumed storage value also includes non-commercial storage consumption and usage of your organization's own storage resources. This makes consumed storage an important tool for managing your storage and forecasting future use.

The Pulse Dashboard summarizes storage usage against entitlement, and shows any changes in recent storage activity. Significant changes in either measure warrant immediate investigation. For more information, see the Analyzing Storage section in Checking the Performance of Your Services.

The Storage dashboard at Customer and Service Level covers storage usage across all your organization's services and associated environments, allowing you to:

• analyze storage usage. For more information, see the following sections in Using the Storage Reports:

  • Total Storage: Usage Table

  • Storage Usage by Service Chart

  • Exadata: Usage Table

  • Exalogic: Usage Table

  • Storage: Usage Table

• analyze storage growth. For more information, see the following sections in Using the Storage Reports:

  • Total Storage: Growth Chart

  • Exadata: Growth Chart

  • Exalogic: Growth Chart

  • Prod Total Storage: Growth Chart

  • Non Prod Total Storage: Growth Chart

  • Storage: Growth Chart

  • Tablespace Usage: Growth Chart

• analyze storage projection. For more information, see the following sections in Using the Storage Reports:

  • Total Storage: Projection Chart

  • Exadata: Projection Chart

  • Exalogic: Projection Chart

  • Prod Total Storage: Projection Chart

  • Non Prod Total Storage: Projection Chart

  • Tablespace Usage: Projection Chart

• understand the relationship between the hosts, environments and the customer-owned storage devices being used across all your organization's services. For more information, see the Device Mapping Table section in Using the Storage Reports.

• the customer-owned storage devices being used across all your organization's services. For more information, see the Assets Table section in Using the Storage Reports.