Placement policy rules "SET POOL 'xyz'... " may only name GPFS data pools. NOT "EXTERNAL POOLs" -- EXTERNAL POOL is a concept only supported by MIGRATE rules. However you may be interested in "mmcloudgateway" & co, which is all about combining GPFS with Cloud storage. AKA IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/Transparent%20Cloud%20Tiering -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20171106/87838404/attachment.html>