Changing relocation speed

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

To change relocation speed

1. Perform one of the following to display the Pools window.

For Command Suite:

• On the Resource tab, expand the Storage Systems tree. Right-click DP Pools of the target storage system, then select System GUI.

For Storage Navigator:

• In the Storage Systems tree on the left pane of the main window, select Pools.

2. From the Pools table on the right, click the row of the pool you want to change.

3. 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.

4. Set the Relocation Speed check box to ON.

5. Use the Relocation Speed option to set the speed for page relocation to 1(Slowest), 2(Slower), 3(Standard), 4(Faster), and 5(Fastest). The default is 3(Standard). To perform tier relocation at high speed, set 5(Fastest). If the speed specified is slower than 3(Standard), the data drive load is low when tier relocation is performed.

6. Click Finish.

The Confirm window appears.

7. 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.

8. 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.