You define a minimum of one policy in a service definition. A service definition contains workloads, service classes, and classification rules. Optionally, it contains resource groups, report classes, and application environments. A service definition also includes one or more policies. A policy is a set of overrides to the goals and resource group limits in the service definition. In a service definition, you also specify whether you want workload management to manage I/O priorities based on your service class goals. A service definition has an identifying name and description.
There is one notepad available for the service definition. You can update the notepad whenever you are creating or modifying any of the other parts of a service definition, such as the policy, workload, service class, resource group, and classification rules. All of the information in a service definition is available to reporting products, except for the notepad information and the classification rules. The notepad information is provided for a history log, and change management.
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