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Alter Tier

Alters properties of an exisiting tier to facilitate resource management.

To disable watermark-based eviction, set both high_watermark and low_watermark to 100.

Input Parameter Description

Name

Type

Description

name

string

Name of the tier to be altered. Must be an existing tier group name.

options

map of string to strings

Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Supported Parameters (keys)	Parameter Description
capacity	Maximum size in bytes this tier may hold at once.
high_watermark	Threshold of usage of this tier's resource that once exceeded, will trigger watermark-based eviction from this tier. The minimum allowed value is 0. The maximum allowed value is 100.
low_watermark	Threshold of resource usage that once fallen below after crossing the high_watermark, will cease watermark-based eviction from this tier. The minimum allowed value is 0. The maximum allowed value is 100.
wait_timeout	Timeout in seconds for reading from or writing to this resource. Applies to cold storage tiers only.
persist	If true the system configuration will be written to disk upon successful application of this request. This will commit the changes from this request and any additional in-memory modifications. The default value is true. The supported values are: true false
rank	Apply the requested change only to a specific rank. The minimum allowed value is 0. The maximum allowed value is 10000.

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Value of input parameter name.
info	map of string to strings	Additional information.