Changing monitoring and tier relocation settings

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

This topic describes how to change the following pool settings of Dynamic Tiering:

• Automatic or manual execution of monitoring and tier relocation

• Cycle time of monitoring and tier relocation

• Time period of monitoring

How to change monitoring and tier relocation settings:

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. Check Tier Management.

5. From the Tier Management field, select Auto or Manual.

Typically, set Auto.

When you select Auto, monitoring and tier relocation can automatically execute.

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

When you change the setting of Auto to Manual while performance monitoring and tier relocation is executing, it is canceled.

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

7. Click Finish.

The Confirm window appears.

8. 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.

9. 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.