What is Device Pinning?

How do I prevent the movement of data related to thin devices under FAST VP control?

EMC SW: Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP)

Enginuity: 5875

 

Pinning a device that is associated with a FAST VP policy will prevent any data movement for that device.  Devices can be pinned individually, by device range, or by device file by using the symdev command.  Devices may also be pinned by storage group or by device group by using the symsg and symdg commands, respectively.

 

 

Pinning can be performed using Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI).

To pin an individual device, run: symdev -sid ### pin 825

To pin a range of devices, run: symdev -sid ### pin -range 825:835

To pin all devices in a storage group, run: symsg -sid ### -sg storagegroupname pin

To pin all devices in a device group, run: symdg -sid ### dgname pin