In this post, I will discuss how to view Wasted Storage or Unattached Volumes in AWS using Turbonomic. This is also posted HERE
Pre-requisites:
Datastore Browsing Enabled in Turbonomic – If this cannot be enabled across the whole environment, I will show how to do this at a Group level.
1 – Creating AWS Storage Group/s – This may be required if you cannot enabled Datastore Browsing across the whole environment or if you want to Group different AWS Storage by Regions.
- Go to Settings > Groups > Create New Group > Storage
- Give the Group a Name
- Select Group Type (Static or Dynamic)
Static
-Select Static If you want to Manually add all or certain AWS Storage Devices
-Search for AWS and Select the Devices you want to Add
Dynamic
– Select Dynamic If you want to create Groups for Regions and want to ensure any new regions are automatically added
– Use the Filters and RegEx to find correct Devices
- Save the Group
Creating a Policy for Datastore Browsing – This may be required if you cannot have Datastore Browsing Enabled across the whole environment.
- Go to Settings > Policy > New Automation Policy > Storage
- Give the Policy a Name
- Scope to the relevant Storage Group (Could be what you created earlier)
- Under Storage Settings, Select Disable Datastore Browsing and Disable this option
Viewing Unattached Volumes
- From Search find the Group just created
- Select the Group
- Under the Overview section you can see Cost Breakdown By Unattached Tier
- Navigate to the Top Volumes Widget
- Select Show All
- Sort the Fields by Linked VM so you can see any Undefined
- This shows the Volumes that are not assigned to a VM
- You can Download this list as an CSV File for further analysis
