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To adapt the size of the pools to varying capacity requirements
To migrate data within the pools to match its profile in performance,
availability, frequency of access, and so on, as pools expand or retract
To allow for load balancing and avoid introducing hot spots in the data path
To efficiently ensure the availability of data by using mirrors or snapshots to
speed up recovery and backup
To present one single management interface to the administrator(s) that is
easy to learn and use
To be completely transparent to various applications and heterogeneous file
systems
To provide continuous availability of the virtualization system by failover
To coexist with non virtualized storage on the ...