<tt><font size=2><br>You asked ... "We are wishing to migrate data according to the
heat onto different <br>storage categories (expensive --> cheap devices)"</font></tt><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>We suggest a policy rule like this:</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>Rule 'm' Migrate From Pool 'Expensive' To Pool
'Thrifty' Threshold(90,75) Weight(-FILE_HEAT) /* minus sign! */</font></tt><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>Which you can interpret as:</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>When The 'Expensive' pool is 90% or more full, Migrate
the lowest heat (coldest!) files to pool 'Thrifty', until</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>the occupancy of 'Expensive' has been reduced to 75%.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>The concepts of Threshold and Weight have been in
the produce since the MIGRATE rule was introduced.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>Another concept we introduced at the same time as
FILE_HEAT was GROUP POOL. We've had little feedback and very</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>few questions about this, so either it works great
or is not being used much. (Maybe both are true ;-) )</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>GROUP POOL migration is documented in the Information
Lifecycle Management chapter along with the other elements of the policy
rules.</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>In the 4.2.1 doc we suggest you can "repack"
several pools with one GROUP POOL rule and one MIGRATE rule like this:</font></tt><br><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">You can “repack” a group pool
by </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>WEIGHT</b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">.
Migrate files of higher weight to preferred disk pools</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">by specifying a group pool as both
the source and the target of a </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>MIGRATE
</b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">rule.</font><br><br><font size=1 face="BookMaster">rule ’grpdef’ GROUP POOL ’gpool’
IS ’ssd’ LIMIT(90) THEN ’fast’ LIMIT(85) THEN ’sata’</font><br><font size=1 face="BookMaster">rule ’repack’ MIGRATE FROM POOL ’gpool’
TO POOL ’gpool’ WEIGHT(FILE_HEAT)</font><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>This should rank all the files in the three pools
from hottest to coldest, and migrate them </font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>as necessary (if feasible) so that 'ssd' is up to
90% full of the hottest, 'fast' is up to 85% full of the next</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>most hot, and the coolest files will be migrated to
'sata'.</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2><br><br></font></tt><br><BR>