Rebalancing the usage level among pool-vols, Execution mode settings and tiering policy – HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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Rebalancing the usage level among pool-VOLs

The usage level among pool-VOLs is rebalanced automatically so that the page usage ratio is
averaged across pool-VOLs. Therefore, the loads of pool-VOLs are distributed. The usage level
among pool-VOLs is automatically rebalanced in the following cases:

Expanding pool-VOLs

Shrinking pool-VOLs

Reclaiming zero pages

Performance of the host I/O may decrease due to movement of the existing data. If you do not
want to automate balancing of the usage level of pool-VOLs, call the HP Technical Support. You
can see the rebalancing progress of the usage level among pool-VOLs in the View Pool Management
Status window (see

(page 327)

. Thin Provisioning automatically stops balancing the usage levels

among pool-VOLs if the cache memory is not redundant or the pool usage rate reaches up to the
threshold.

Execution mode settings and tiering policy

The follow depicts how tier relocation is performed after changing the tiering policy setting while
Auto execution mode is used.

The following depicts two cases of how tier relocation is performed after changing the tiering policy
setting while Manual execution mode is used.

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