Introduction to Volume Management

Use the Volume Management application to monitor volume usage and improve Teamcenter performance by moving infrequently used data from primary storage space to either destination volumes or to third-party storage systems. All data continues to appear online to users, whether the data is stored online, near-line, or offline. The Volume Management perspective consists of two views. Volume Management view Displays by default when you open the Volume Management perspective. If you close this view to better display the Volume Monitor view, you can open it again by choosing Window→Show View→Volume Management. Use the Volume Monitor view to monitor volume usage and balance volume resources by reassigning default volumes for specific users or groups. After migration policies are created, you can use the Volume Management view to: Preview the impact of migration policies. Use the FMS server cache (FSC) process to migrate volume files from a source volume to a destination volume. Export pending migration file sets to third-party hierarchical storage management (HSM) systems to migrate/purge files from the online primary tier to near-line secondary tiers or offline tertiary tiers. Generate data migration reports. Volume Monitor view To open the Volume Monitor view, from the Volume Management perspective choose Window→Show View→Volume Monitor. Use the Volume Management view to create migration policies by applying migration options and metadata query options to a specific policy. Tip Use volume management (VM) migration policies to migrate and consolidate Teamcenter volume files and to migrate infrequently used Teamcenter files off of source volumes and on to destination volumes. Use hierarchical storage management (HSM) migration policies to move lower priority files to third-party storage systems. Files stored on secondary and tertiary tiers can be read without moving them to the highest level.