Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0 Solutions Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

22 Tiered storage solutions
Policies for storage tiers
days. Figure 3-1 illustrates such a configuration where a file system has been
created on a volume set that is composed of volumes that have been tagged with
tier values that correspond to the cost of the storage from which they have been
created.
Figure 3-1 A volume set with three tiers based on storage cost
Volumes
tagged as
tier=bronze
Volumes
tagged as
tier=silver
Volumes
tagged as
tier=gold
Volume set
Most expensive storage
Least expensive storage
Middle-priced storage
tagged as cost=gold
tagged as cost=silver
tagged as cost=bronze
Storage