By preconfiguring frequently used combinations of protection policies, provisioning policies, resource pools, and optional vFiler templates for your datasets, you can simplify configuration of new datasets and their administration for yourself, your co-workers, or outside storage service subscribers.
- Dataset creation is simplified because your protection, provisioning, and vFiler information is mostly predesignated.
- You can preconfigure different levels of storage services for different classes of applications to support.
- You can preconfigure different levels of storage services for different levels of storage service subscribers.
- You can edit an existing storage service configuration and apply that single change to all the datasets to which this storage service is attached.
- You can use the storage service feature to test the validity of the changes that you want to make, before you actually implement them.
- You can support automatic assignment of appropriate storage service configurations through subscriber-friendly orchestration tools.
Storage services example
For example, a storage administrator might want to configure several classes of storage services to support different types of applications.
- Storage Service A might provide support for applications that require high-end data update and retrieval performance, and disaster recovery capable mirror protection and data availability.
The administrator, therefore configures Storage Service A with a "DR Mirror, then mirror" protection policy, a provisioning policy that specifies high performance storage systems, and resource pools that contains high performance storage systems in sufficient numbers.
- Storage Service B might provide support for applications that require mid-range data update and retrieval performance and remote backup protection.
The administrator therefore configures Storage Service B with a "Backup" protection policy, a provisioning policy that specifies mid-range storage systems, and a resource pool that contains mid-range storage systems in sufficient numbers.
- Storage Service C might provide support for applications producing a lot of primary data that might require frequent migration to other physical storage sites.
The administrator therefore configures Storage Service C with a "Backup" protection policy, and a vFiler template that supports the creation of a vFiler unit that accommodates migration of data to other physical storage sites.