Chapter 8 Managing Drives and Disks

Working with Drive Pools

Working with Drive Pools

Drive pools are groups of tape drives allocated for various administrator- defined storage tasks. Drive pools enable you to delimit storage processes based on data type, performance, security, location, or all of these variables. Drive pools can reside in a single tape library or span multiple tape libraries.

Working with drive pools involves the following tasks:

Adding a Drive Pool

Modifying a Drive Pool

Deleting a Drive Pool

Adding a Drive Pool

Use this procedure to add a drive pool.

 

Note: This procedure requires restarting the Storage Manager component.

1From the SNSM home page, choose Config Drive Pool from the Admin menu. The Configure Drive Pools screen appears.

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Quantum 3.5.2 manual Working with Drive Pools, Adding a Drive Pool, Use this procedure to add a drive pool