Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection 2.x.x Administrator's Guide

To add/edit a Tiering policy

1. Access the Administration portal.

   The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.

2. Click Tiering.
3. On the left, click Cool storage tier policies or Archive storage tier policies as required.

   Cool tier	Cool tier is an online tier optimized for storing the data that is infrequently accessed. Data in the Cool tier should be stored for a minimum of 30 days. The Cool tier has lower storage costs and higher access costs as compared to the Hot tier.
   Archive tier	Archive tier is an offline tier optimized for storing the data that is not accessed frequently and that has flexible latency requirements on the order of hours. Data in the Archive tier should be stored for a minimum of 180 days.

4. Do any of the following:

   • To add a new policy, click New policy.

   • To update existing policy, click the name of the policy.

5. On the Create policy page, do the following:

   • Enter a descriptive name for the policy. This name is displayed in policy dropdown lists on several pages.

   • From the Stor name dropdown list, select the Stor where you want to create the tier policy.

   • Select any of the following schedules to run the policy:

     • One time: Runs once as per the policy interval settings, and then its schedule gets changed to Never.

     • Continuous: Runs as per the policy interval settings.

     • Date range: Lets you specify a From and To date range to run the policy.

     • Never: Set this option if you are not ready to run the policy or want to stop the policy from running. The One time scheduled policies gets converted to Never after its runs.

   • Select any of the following modes as required:

     • Preview: Lists the items for tiering.

       To ensure that you understand fully the scope of data that will be tiered, run the policy in Preview mode initially.

     • Production: Retains the items as per policy.

   • By default, the status of the policy is disabled; it is saved but cannot not run. Toggle the Status option to enable the policy.

     As soon as the policy is enabled, it runs as per the schedule set in the Schedule section.

   • (Optional) Configure filters to include or exclude specific locations or data from having the policy applied.

     See How to add a Location filter?.

     See How to add a filter?.

   • Click Create to add a policy or click Update to save the changes.

   For Cool tier policies, it can be useful to add a clause for Archived At while adding a filter. It is the date the file was uploaded to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection. The default or older than one month is typically sufficient as it ensures that the data has time for any post-processing, such as full-text indexing; while on the Hot tier where the data has the lowest access costs.

   Archive tier policies automatically exclude data based on the Stors storage tiering settings for the last accessed and items captured in the last N days. The policy runs according to the Policy Evaluation Interval for the selected Stor.

   Warning:

   Removing a Cool or Archive tier policy causes the data to be moved back to the Hot tier unless there is an overlapping Cool or Archive tier policy. Unwanted access and transaction costs incur and also could charge deletion costs if the data hasn't been on the tier long enough.