ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser V16.9.1 Operation Guide for Optimization Function

Chapter 2 Design of Automated Storage Tiering

Overview of the steps for utilizing the Automated Storage Tiering is as follows:

1. Setup of environment

   1. Enable Automated Storage Tiering on storage devices.

   2. Create Tiering policies, Tier pools, and virtual logical volumes (FTVs)

2. Starting Automated Storage Tiering

   1. Start Automated Storage Tiering for the Tier pool to be used.
      (With this operation, the access status data from during the configured period is collected automatically)

   2. Evaluate the collected access status data and relocate data according to Tiering policies.
      (In the Execution Mode where evaluation and relocation are performed automatically, this is implemented automatically by the system)

This chapter describes the design of the Automated Storage Tiering that is required before the above procedure can be performed.

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If this product and another product that is using the RESTful API of the storage device are managing the same storage device, refer to "Disk Storage System Management" in the chapter "Operation Design" of the Storage Cruiser Operation Guide for the operation design.