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Policy for Balancing Capacity

Adding a Share Farm

CLI Storage-Management Guide 12-15

Adding a Share Farm

You configure your usage-balancing policies in a share farm. A share farm is a group

of shares in a volume. You can apply file-distribution rules to a share farm, with the

aim of balancing the usage of its back-end shares. Instructions for setting these rules

appear later in this chapter.

A volume can contain one or more share farms. From gbl-ns-vol mode, use the

share-farm command to add a share farm to the volume:

share-farm name

where name (1-64 characters) is the name you choose for the share farm.

This puts you into gbl-ns-vol-sfarm mode, where you can identify the shares in the

farm.

For example, the following command sequence creates an empty share farm, “fm1:”

volume "/acct"

namespace "wwmed"

/budget

/bills

share farm "fm1"