What is Temperature Sensitive Storage Efficiency?
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Storage Efficiency
- Compression
- Temperature-Sensitive-Storage-Efficiency (TSSE)
Answer
Temperature-Sensitive-Storage-Efficiency (TSSE) is the inital method in ONTAP 9 AFF platforms without compression offloading, to do Auto Adaptive Compression.
It was introduced in ONTAP 9.8, where ONTAP can decide based on block temperature to background-compress written data in either lighter 8k or stronger 32k compression-groups based on the block temperature.
Additional Information
- Downside from TSSE before 9.11.1 is No compression (reporting 0)savings in ONTAP 9.8 or later at the volume level and aggregate level
- AFF-A and -C platforms with QAT capacble CPU fot compression offloading do not use 32k compression groups based on block temperature anymore, but instead use Auto Adaptive Compression for all data blocks.
