A facilities management company uses a private cloud that bursts to a public cloud at times. The CSA is asked to check the amount of storage that is used when the organization is overutilizing on-prem

Ensuring deduplication is enabled is a proactive storage optimization technique, not a monitoring step to identify when on-premises resources are currently overutilized.

Checking public cloud storage utilization identifies the resources consumed *after* the burst occurs, not the overutilization within the private cloud that *caused* the burst.

When a private cloud 'bursts' to a public cloud because on-premises resources are overutilized, the underlying cause is the exhaustion of local resources. Therefore, checking the storage utilization in the private cloud directly identifies the specific on-premises resource constraint that triggered the bursting event.

Confirming storage utilization in the public cloud backup environment is relevant for data protection, but it does not reflect the live operational storage overutilization that initiates a cloud burst.