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PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Pool-based tree reporting in FSAnalyze (FSA)

You can store a subset of files remotely.

A storage policy can lead to a subset of files that are stored remotely. The metadata or namespace is stored on a PowerScale cluster and the data is stored on a remote machine, hosted by a cloud storage provider. This mechanism helps you to monitor the usage of cloud and on-premises resources through the cluster.

The pool-based tree reporting feature is used to classify directory usage by storage level. The disk usage component is extended to add up information by node pool. A file that is stored in cloud is tagged with a special node pool. The database table is extended to have a node pool column, and a given directory has usage that the node pool records. The report for directory pool usage can be accessed using the Job ID and PAPI endpoints.

The feature has storage impact from the running FSA and IndexUpdate jobs, which are otherwise optional. Snapshots are taken and kept for the duration while the FSA job runs. FSA and IndexUpdate jobs creates and manages metadata indexes to track file system metadata. A new FSA database is created for every FSA result that is generated.

The disk usage table, the biggest table within FSA database grows linearly with the number of node pools.


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