• Administrator overview
• Managing users and permissions
  • User roles and access permissions
  • Creating users
  • Editing users
  • Unlocking a user account
  • Resending a user activation link
  • Deleting or deactivating users
  • Using groups
  • Managing departments
  • Managing passwords and password policies
  • Setting account-wide access policies
  • Changing a resource owner
  • Using Single Sign-On (SSO)
    • Using Single Sign-on (SSO) with Azure Active Directory (AAD)
    • Configuring an ADFS claim rule for SSO
• Managing account-wide settings
  • Adding container registries
• Managing public IP addresses
• Managing WANs
  • Overview: VPNs
    • Creating a VPN
      • VPN configuration parameters
        • AWS VPC: VPN configuration example
        • Azure VPN: VPN configuration example
        • Cisco ASA: VPN configuration example
        • Cisco IOS: VPN configuration example
        • Juniper SRX: VPN configuration example
        • pfSense: VPN configuration example
        • strongSwan: VPN configuration example
  • Overview: Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connections
    • Creating a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection
    • Creating a customer-managed Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection
  • Testing the WAN
    • Troubleshooting VPN test failures
  • Connecting an environment network to a WAN
  • Configuring WAN access controls
  • Editing an existing WAN connection
  • Disable a WAN
• Managing Metered RAM and storage usage
  • How usage is calculated
  • Viewing current usage and enabling pay-as-you-go capacity
  • Reserved capacity for Skytap on Azure
  • Reserved capacity for Skytap on IBM Cloud
  • Setting usage limits
  • Setting up notifications
  • VM pinning
• Reporting overview
  • Viewing and exporting user information
  • Viewing and exporting group information
  • Generating department reports
  • Generating audit reports
    • Configuring the webhook service for audit data
  • Viewing usage data
    • Using labels for in-depth reporting
    • Creating usage label categories
    • Configuring the webhook service for usage data
  • Enabling other users to generate reports
• Security best practices
• Other best practices
• Sharing templates with users in other Skytap accounts
• Finding the source environment from a sharing portal URL
• Including your logo in the Skytap interface

Determining usage of the shared drive

This article describes several ways to check the current usage of the shared drive from a VM or from an SFTP client. Any Skytap or administrator can perform these actions.

Determining usage from a Windows VM

By mapping the shared drive as a network drive, you can see the total drive capacity and how much of the capacity is in use. The mapping process differs between Windows versions.

For example, from a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM:

1. Navigate to My Computer.
2. Click the Map Network Drive button along the upper edge of the window.
3. Choose an appropriate drive letter (such as “F:”).
4. For the Folder field, enter \\gw\shared.

Determining usage from a Linux VM

View usage from smbclient or Nautilus on a Linux VM. For more information about installing these tools, see Adding and sharing files with the shared drive.

• smbclient

  Type du to display the current usage of the shared drive, as well as its total capacity.

• Nautilus

  To display current and total use, view the folder properties by pressing Alt + Enter.

Determining usage from an SFTP client

How you determine usage via SFTP depends on which program you use. Most programs display only the size of files within a selected directory—not the contents of subdirectories.

You can view the total size of a directory and all of the files in its subdirectories by temporarily adding them to the SFTP client transfer queue.

To view the combined size of all files in the shared drive

1. To temporarily add all files to the transfer queue, right-click the shared_drive directory and select Add files to queue from the menu.

   The SFTP client displays the combined size of all the files in the transfer queue.

   

2. To clear the transfer queue, right-click in the transfer queue at the bottom of the SFTP client and select Stop and remove all.

   Notes

   • You can't add files or folders to the transfer queue unless you're connected to an FTP server.
   • Some SFTP clients may report file sizes in kibibytes, mebibytes, etc., rather than in kilobytes, megabytes, etc.

Related articles

• Administrators can find the maximum capacity of the shared drive from the Manage > Settings page. For more information, see Managing account-wide settings.
• Administrators can increase the size of a shared drive by contacting Skytap Support at support@skytap.com.
• For general information about using the shared drive, see Adding and sharing files with the shared drive.