Dynamic Tiering workflow

The following illustration shows the workflow for setting up Dynamic Tiering on the storage system.

As shown in the illustration, Device Manager - Storage Navigator and Command Control Interface (CCI) have different workflows. This document describes how to set up Dynamic Tiering using Device Manager - Storage Navigator . For details about how to set up Dynamic Tiering using CCI, see the Command Control Interface Command Reference and Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide. Use Device Manager - Storage Navigator to create pools and DP-VOLs.

*Notes:

  1. When you create a pool using CCI, you cannot enable the multi-tier pool option or register multiple media as pool-VOLs. Before making tiers, enable the multi-tier pool option.
  2. Enabling the multi-tier pool option from CCI automatically sets Tier Management to Manual. You must use Device Manager - Storage Navigator to change Tier Management to Auto.

CautionWhen you delete a pool, its pool-VOLs (LDEVs) are blocked, and you must format the blocked LDEVs before using them.