Benefits of Automated Storage Tiering

Automating storage tiers is an attractive element to most storage systems, primarily because the right resources will get the right disk when it is needed. In this ZDNet report, the process of storage tiering and how automating the process is explained.

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"The automated storage tiering technologies allow the storage administrator to permit a volume that may reside on a lesser-performing disk set to be dynamically moved to a higher-performing tier automatically. One of the best use cases is to put the bulk of a SAN's storage requirements on less expensive SATA storage and use automated storage tiering to move those volumes or sub volumes to higher performing SAS or solid state disk drives."

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