poolIt Features
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| Number of pools that can be created and mounted on the machine | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Maximum number of file systems that can be added to a pool | 5 | 10 | 20 |
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| Pooling of directly attached drives | |
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| Pooling of network drives | |
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| Exporting a volume pool as a share on the network | - | |
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| Support for pools containing SAN volumes | - | - | |
| Exploring a pool’s contents in Pool Explorer | |
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| Running optimization on pools | - | |
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| Fill-up policy | |
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| Harmonize policy | |
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| File Type policy | - | |
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| Last Accessed policy | - | |
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| Support for Desktop OS |
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| Support for Server OS | - | - | |
Exploring a pool’s contents in Pool Explorer
Pool Explorer like Windows Explorer/The Finder shows you the hierarchical structure of the pool. In contrast to Windows Explorer and The Finder in which the volume pool is displayed as one local drive, in Pool Explorer you can browse each individual volume added to the pool, to view ambiguous files and folders and, depending on the poolIt edition, to perform certain operations like viewing folder usaga, moving a file object from one member to another, etc.
The optimization of a pool is the process in which poolIt rearranges existent data (by moving it from one pool member to another) in order to meet the criteria of the selected policy for data distribution.
When data is distributed with Fill-up policy (when creating news files on the pool or when running optimization in order to rearrange existing files), the member volume with highest priority should be filled first, before writing data to a member with lower priority.
When data is distributed with Harmonzie policy (when creating news files on the pool or when running optimization in order to rearrange existing files), poolIt tries to distribute file objects in such a way that the whole content of a folder is on one and the same member volume.
File Type policy (Windows only)
When data is distributed with File Type policy (when creating news files on the pool or when running optimization in order to rearrange existing files), poolIt tries to distribute file objects among the pool member volumes in such a way that files of common type reside on the same file system. To achieve this you must specify the file types each member volume has affinity to by entering a list of file types.
Last Accessed policy is implemented to enhance workflow in which faster and slower file systems participate in one pool. When creating new files on the pool Last Accessed policy works exactly as Fill-up policy. Still, when you run Last Accessed optimization, poolIt attempts to free space on the member volumes with higher priority by moving less frequently used data (data that has not been accessed recently) to members with lower priority. Thus, all newly created and frequently used data can be accessed faster on a member with higher priority, while all other data is moved to a member with lower priority.
