Easy Tier evaluation mode
When IBM® Easy Tier® evaluation mode is enabled for a storage pool with a single tier of storage, Easy Tier collects usage statistics for all the volumes in the pool.
The system monitors the storage use at the volume extent level. Easy Tier constantly gathers and analyzes monitoring statistics to derive moving averages for the past 24 hours.
Volumes are not monitored when the easytier attribute of a storage pool is set to off. Volumes are monitored when the easytier attribute of a storage pool is set to measure.
You can control or view data placement settings by using the following command-line interface (CLI) commands:
- mkmdiskgrp
- Creates a storage pool.
Other MDisk commands such as addmdisk, chmdisk, and lsmdisk can be used to view or set the tier an MDisk belongs to.