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Figure 9-17 Pool properties that show that Easy Tier is active
12.Navigate to Pools → MDisks by Pools to see the MDisks that were created within the
pool with two different drive classes. The tier information is not a default column in the
MDisks by Pools panel. To access the tier information right-click the gray header and
select Tier. Each MDisk will display its tier class as shown in Figure 9-18.
Figure 9-18 MDisks by Pools panel
Note: Adding multiple MDisks of the same drive class will result in a single-tiered pool with
Balanced Easy Tier status, which will only benefit from the Storage Pool Balancing feature.