We recently purchased new encrypted nodes ( SED drives in them). Currently we have X410s and N400s and no encrypted drives. We use one file pool policy that moves files older than X days to the N400s.

We would like to keep part of our data on the encrypted drives. When we add the new nodes, I believe they will be in their own storage pool. In order to move the data that needs to be encrypted, I am planning to create a file pool policy with the highest priority, to move the files to the new tier using a directory path criteria. So my first question is , will the smartpool policy move the existing files and the new files as they come in to the new storage pool at the same time? I am wondering if the policy will only apply to the new files coming to the dir. path in the policy or will it also apply to all the files in the directory?

My second question is, will the old file policy affect the files that were moved to the encrypted node pool? Since we don't want the encypted files to be moved to N400 node pool, should we exclude them from the second file policy? If the two policies affect the same file, will both policies be applied or just the first one?

We are on v8.0.0.2.

Thanks

-Dan