Working with service plans

Each namespace has a service plan that defines both a storage tiering strategy and a data protection strategy for the objects in that namespace. At any given point in the lifecycle of an object, its storage tiering strategy specifies the types of storage on which copies of that object must be stored, and its data protection strategy specifies the number of object copies that must be stored on each type of storage.

A service plan is a named specification of HCP service behavior that determines how HCP manages the storage of the data and metadata for objects in a given namespace. For example, the service plan for a namespace could specify that the storage tiering service should move objects from primary running storage to primary spindown storage 30 days after they’re stored and specify that the protection service should ensure that HCP maintains two copies of the data for each object that exists on primary spindown storage. Service plans enable you to tailor a storage tiering strategy and a data protection strategy for each tenant and its namespaces based on specific storage usage patterns or business needs.

You can create any number of service plans on an HCP system and configure each plan to use up to four different storage tiers, including the ingest tier (primary running storage or economy storage). You can then offer a wide variety of service plans to tenant administrators in order to meet the business needs of each tenant.

You can use the Storage page in the System Management Console to create, modify, retire, and delete service plans. You can also use the Storage page to monitor the usage of all primary spindown storage and extended storage tiers that are defined by any given service plan.

To display the Storage page, in the top-level menu in the System Management Console, click on Storage.

Roles: To view existing service plans and monitor storage usage for storage tiers defined for one or more service plans, you need the monitor or administrator role. To create, modify, retire, and delete service plans, you need the administrator role.

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