Hyper-V Overprovisioned Storage

Dynamic disk technology allows administrators to allocate for virtual machines more storage space than there is real physical capacity. The Hyper-V Overprovisioned Storage report helps you reveal excessive storage over-provisioning in your virtual environment.

Sample Usage

This section provides step-by-step instructions that will help you understand how to create the Hyper-V Overprovisioned Storage report. Consider the following example:

You need to report on disks with the largest amount of provisioned storage space. Use statistics for the previous month as a ground for the report analysis.

To create the report, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Hyper-V Overprovisioned Storage report.
  2. Define time intervals.
  3. Choose sorting options.
  4. Choose an aggregation type.
  5. Choose a report scope.
  6. Run the report.
  7. View the report output.