Starting compression on demand
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager lets you start the compression process on a file system immediately if there are no compression-related activities occurring on the host.
To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin role on the host or the Server perspective. The permission on the host may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization.
To start compression on demand
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In the Management Server console, go to the Server perspective and expand Manage in the left pane.
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Expand the Organization or Uncategorized Hosts to locate the host.
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Expand the host and select Volumes.
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Right-click the volume on which the file system is mounted and click Properties.
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Click the Compression tab.
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Optionally change the directories that are enabled for compression.
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Click Compress Now.
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On the Compress Now window, specify the options for compression and confirm starting compression.
Compression Duration Specify how long the compression process runs. All directories may not be processed during the specified duration. For example, a duration of one hour is set and 10 directories are enabled for compression. After one hour, nine directories are compressed. The compression process stops. At the next scheduled run, the compression process continues with the tenth directory, and then starts over with the first directory and compresses any new files added since the last run Default: four hours Number of CPUs to use for compression Specify how many CPUs to use for compression. Default: 50 percent of the CPUs available for the host, up to 4 CPUs.
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