Veritas™ File System 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Volume encapsulation ................................................................. 134
Encapsulating a volume ......................................................... 134
Deencapsulating a volume ..................................................... 136
Reporting file extents .................................................................. 136
Examples of reporting file extents ........................................... 137
Load balancing ........................................................................... 138
Defining and assigning a load balancing allocation policy ............ 138
Rebalancing extents .............................................................. 138
Converting a multi-volume file system to a single volume file
system ................................................................................ 139
Converting to a single volume file system ................................. 139
Chapter 10 Dynamic Storage Tiering .................................................. 143
About Dynamic Storage Tiering .................................................... 143
Placement classes ....................................................................... 145
Tagging volumes as placement classes ..................................... 146
Listing placement classes ....................................................... 146
Administering placement policies .................................................. 146
Assigning a placement policy .................................................. 147
Unassigning a placement policy .............................................. 147
Analyzing the space impact of enforcing a placement
policy ........................................................................... 147
Querying which files will be affected by enforcing a placement
policy ........................................................................... 148
Enforcing a placement policy .................................................. 148
Validating a placement policy ................................................. 149
File placement policy grammar ..................................................... 150
File placement policy rules ........................................................... 150
SELECT statement ................................................................ 151
CREATE statement ............................................................... 154
RELOCATE statement ........................................................... 156
DELETE statement ................................................................ 167
Calculating I/O temperature and access temperature ........................ 169
Multiple criteria in file placement policy rule statements ................... 173
Multiple file selection criteria in SELECT statement clauses ......... 173
Multiple placement classes in <ON> clauses of CREATE
statements and in <TO> clauses of RELOCATE statements
................................................................................... 174
Multiple placement classes in <FROM> clauses of RELOCATE
and DELETE statements .................................................. 175
Multiple conditions in <WHEN> clauses of RELOCATE and
DELETE statements ....................................................... 176
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