Veritas File System 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

Volume encapsulation ................................................................. 127
Encapsulating a volume ......................................................... 127
Deencapsulating a volume ...................................................... 128
Reporting file extents .................................................................. 129
Examples of reporting file extents ........................................... 129
Load balancing ........................................................................... 130
Defining and assigning a load balancing allocation policy ............ 131
Rebalancing extents .............................................................. 131
Converting a multi-volume file system to a single volume file
system ................................................................................ 132
Converting to a single volume file system .................................. 132
Chapter 10 Dynamic Storage Tiering
About Dynamic Storage Tiering ..................................................... 135
Placement classes ....................................................................... 136
Tagging volumes as placement classes ...................................... 137
Listing placement classes ....................................................... 138
Administering placement policies .................................................. 138
Assigning a placement policy .................................................. 139
Unassigning a placement policy .............................................. 139
Analyzing the space impact of enforcing a placement policy ......... 139
Querying which files will be affected by enforcing a placement
policy ........................................................................... 139
Enforcing a placement policy .................................................. 140
Validating a placement policy ................................................. 141
File placement policy grammar ..................................................... 141
File placement policy rules ........................................................... 154
SELECT statement ................................................................ 154
CREATE statement ................................................................ 158
RELOCATE statement ............................................................ 160
DELETE statement ................................................................ 171
Calculating I/O temperature and access temperature ......................... 172
Multiple criteria in file placement policy rule statements ................... 176
Multiple file selection criteria in SELECT statement clauses ......... 176
Multiple placement classes in <ON> clauses of CREATE
statements and in <TO> clauses of RELOCATE statements
.................................................................................... 178
Multiple placement classes in <FROM> clauses of RELOCATE
and DELETE statements .................................................. 179
Multiple conditions in <WHEN> clauses of RELOCATE and
DELETE statements ........................................................ 179
File placement policy rule and statement ordering ............................ 179
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