Managing tasks

Tasks are used to provision storage and optimize resources in your storage environment. Use the Tasks page to manage all the tasks that are used by IBM Spectrum® Control to provision storage and optimize resources. Use resource list and resource details pages to manage the tasks for specific resources and resource types.

Discontinued support: Cloud configuration, provisioning, and optimization are no longer supported in IBM Spectrum Control. While these features might still work in this release, it's recommended that you use another tool for your provisioning, optimization, and volume transformation needs, when possible. For a complete list of discontinued features, see Discontinued features in IBM Spectrum Control.
Tasks are created when you take any of the following actions in the GUI:
  • You can provision storage to assign storage to servers or hypervisors.
  • You can analyze tiering to move volumes to higher or lower tiers.
  • You can transform storage to move or convert volumes.
  • You can balance pools to distribute the workload of volumes across pools on the same tier.
Use the following actions to manage tasks:
  • View the status of tasks in a central location.
  • Identify all the tasks that are related to a specific resource or a type of resource.
  • Identify all the tasks that are encountering problems when the tasks are running.
  • Administer the tasks. The actions that are available depend on the type of task that you select. For example, you can run or rename a tiering-analysis task, or export provisioning task details to a text file.
  • Change the number of task runs that are displayed.
Tip: A task run is a single invocation of a task.