SmartTier enables administrators of multi-volume VxFS file systems to manage the placement of file objects as well as entire files on individual volumes.
Using sub-file based movement you can:
Move a set of ranges of a specified set of files of a specified set of mounts to a desired set of tiers on command.
Move segments of files using automation to:
Monitor a set of files for collecting I/O statistics
Periodically collect and persist the statistics, cluster-wide if applicable
Periodically enforce the ranges of the registered sets of files based on their relative frequency of access to a desired set of tiers
Track the historical movements of those ranges