HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent V2.1 administrator guide (T4274-96105, October 2006)

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1 Product information
HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent overview
HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent (FMA) offers a technologically innovative approach to data
movement by maintaining active files on high-performance primary storage while archiving inactive files to
cost-effective secondary storage.
Figure 1 Migration process overview
FMA provides support for policy-based file migration, disk space monitoring and remote storage
configuration through an easy-to-use graphical user interface, which is seamlessly integrated into
Microsoft’s Management Console (MMC).
The migration process itself is transparent to Windows users and applications and extends the local file
system to virtually infinite storage. Data management policies can be individually defined on directory
levels based on criteria such as file extension, file size and file timestamps to maintain active data on high
performance disk storage and move inactive or less-frequently used data to lower-cost secondary storage
devices or archival systems.