Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Displaying the SmartMove configuration
This section describes how to display the SmartMove configuration.
To display the SmartMove value
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To display the current and default SmartMove values, type the following
command:
# vxdefault list
KEYWORD CURRENT-VALUE DEFAULT-VALUE
usefssmartmove all all
...
Changing the SmartMove configuration
SmartMove has three different values where SmartMove can be applied or not.
The three values are:
MeaningValue
Do not use SmartMove at all.none
Use SmartMove for thin aware LUNs only.thinonly
Use SmartMove for all operations.
This is the default value.
all
To set the SmartMove value
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To set the SmartMove to apply to all volumes, type the following command:
# vxdefault set usefssmartmove value
where value is either none, thinonly, or all.
Migrating to thin provisioning
The SmartMove™ feature enables migration from traditional LUNs to thinly
provisioned LUNs, removing unused space in the process.
See the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator's Guide for more information on
SmartMove and Thin Provisioning.
Migrating data from thick storage to thin storage
Migrating to thin provisioning
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