Changing monitoring and tier relocation settings

You can change the following monitoring and tier relocation settings of Dynamic Tiering pools:

  • Automatic or manual execution of monitoring and tier relocation
  • Cycle time of monitoring and tier relocation
  • Time period of monitoring

Before you begin

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.

Procedure

  1. Click Storage Systems, and then expand the Storage Systems tree.

  2. Click Pools.

  3. From the Pools table, click the row of a pool you want to change.

  4. Perform one of the following to display the Edit Pools window.

    - Click More Actions and select Edit Pools. - Click Actions > Pool > Edit Pools to open the window.

  5. Select the Tier Management check box.

  6. In Tier Management, select Auto or Manual.

    Normally Auto should be set to allow relocation to be automatically executed.

    When you select Manual, monitoring and tier relocation can be executed with the Command Control Interface commands or from the Pools window.

    When you change the setting from Auto to Manual during performance monitoring and tier relocation is executing, the operation is cancelled and is no longer performed.

  7. If Auto is selected from the Cycle Time list, select the cycle of performance monitoring and tier relocation.

  8. Click Finish.

    The Confirm window appears.

  9. In the Task Name text box, enter the task name.

    You can enter up to 32 ASCII characters and symbols in all, except for \ / : , ; * ? " < > |. The value "date-window name" is entered by default.

  10. In the Confirm window, click Apply to register the setting in the task.

    If the Go to tasks window for status check box is selected, the Tasks window appears.
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