Defining a Management Class

To define a new management class in a policy set, first complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task.

To allow clients to use the new management class, you must activate the policy set that contains the new class.

Policy Domain Name

Select the name of the policy domain to which the management class belongs. This parameter is required.

Policy Set Name

Select the name of the policy set to which the management class belongs..

Management Class Name

Enter the name of the new management class.

Description

Enter the description of the management class, up to 255 characters. This parameter is optional.

Space Management Technique

Specify whether files bound to this management class are eligible for migration. This parameter is optional. This parameter is effective only for HSM clients, not for backup-archive clients or application clients.

None Specifies that files are not eligible for migration. The default is None.
Automatic Specifies that files are eligible for automatic migration or selective migration.
Selective Specifies that files are eligible for selective migration only.

Auto-Migrate On Non-Use

Enter the number of days that must elapse since the file was last accessed before it is eligible for automatic migration. The default is 0.

Migration Requires Backup

Specify whether a backup version of a file must exist before a file can be migrated.

Yes A backup version must exist before a file can be migrated. The default is Yes.
No A backup version is optional.

Migration Destination

Select the name of a primary storage pool to be a destination for migrated files.