Get DPM Server Capacity

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Get DPM Server Capacity activity is used in a runbook that queries a Data Protection Manager server for its available free storage capacity. This information helps you determine the placement of backup data.

The Data Protection Manager server's storage pool returns capacity information in raw gigabytes (GB). For example, the value returned might be “120716263424”. This data value requires additional calculation using standard activities such as Run .Net Script to perform real-world capacity checks. Typically, Data Protection Manager needs two to three times the storage space used by the primary data.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

Get DPM Server Required Properties

Element	Sample Value
Name	The name of the Data Protection Manager connection to use for this activity, which also specifies the server to query for available capacity

Get DPM Server Published Data

Element	Sample Value
DPMServerName	The name of the Data Protection Manager server queried
TotalCapacityBytes	The total capacity of the Data Protection Manager server in bytes
TotalCapacityGB	The total capacity of the Data Protection Manager server in GB
UnallocatedSpaceBytes	The total amount of unallocated disk space on the Data Protection Manager server in bytes
UnallocatedSpaceGB	The total amount of unallocated disk space on the Data Protection Manager server in GB
UsedSpaceBytes	The total amount of currently used disk space on the Data Protection Manager server in bytes
UsedSpaceGB	The total amount of currently used disk space on the Data Protection Manager server in GB

See Also

Concepts

System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Activities
System Center Integration Pack for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager