HCP services

HCP services are responsible for optimizing the use of system resources and maintaining the integrity and availability of the stored data. Each of the twelve services — protection, content verification, scavenging, shredding, compression, duplicate elimination, disposition, garbage collection, capacity balancing, storage tiering, migration, and replication — performs a specific function that contributes to the overall health and viability of the system.

Services generally run without user intervention either according to a schedule or in response to certain events.

In the HCP System Management Console, you can set the service schedule and control certain aspects of some services. You can also monitor the progress of the shredding, duplicate elimination, and replication services and review the use of primary spindown storage and extended storage. Additionally, you use the Console to configure and manage data migrations and replication.

This chapter:

Presents general information about services

Describes how HCP stores metadata, which plays a role in some service processing

Explains each of the HCP services (except replication, which is addressed in Replicating Tenants and Namespaces)

Explains how to monitor and control services, where applicable

Contains instructions for creating, modifying, activating and deleting service schedules

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