That is a great feature, altho I no longer use SOBRs. I have yet to look over all the updates which got released, but I’m hoping quite a few updates were released for the Malware Detection engine.
This was one that caught my eye as well as I will test this with OOTBI when I get it to the DC. Looking forward to going over the notes for this release and the previous one to maybe do another book too.
I avoid SOBR’s when I can. They have a place really, but honestly after having issues evacuating a capacity extent to a new extent (new server, lots of workstation backups causing issues), I’d rather avoid them personally. Still, looks like a pretty great feature-add!
Before rebalancing and the capability to move backups it was pretty rough. I would stick to maximum 3 extents. In some cases just one extent but needed the ability to offload to capacity tier.
The SOSAPI addition supporting multiple extents should help auto load balance the smart entities if I understand things correctly. I setup in my lab a multi-extent Performance tier SOBR this morning and will see what happens