I will comment on the tape combining. There are 3 or 4 primary tape pools. It did not have to be that way. You could have used the same primary tape pool for all of the disk storage pools. However, when reclamation occurs to my knowledge it will not move primary data from one storage pool to another. It reclaims within the pool. So you will have to manually move the data from primary pools to the consolidated pool. The copy pools are a different storage. There is no command to move them from one to the other. What you do there is simply backup the primary to the new consolidated copy pool and delete the volumes from the old copy pools.
Keep this little tidbit in mind. Reclamation can only process one volume at a time in a storage pool. So when you consolidate you could go from 3 or 4 simultaneous reclamations to 1. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Consolidating disk/tape pools Having a fewer number of storage pools makes managing the TSM server a bit easier from a sys admin standpoint. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Consolidating disk/tape pools I know this has been discussed somewhat recently so I thought I'd see if anyone who might have changed and gone this route has any comments. I've been thinking about combining 3-4 disk/tape pools into one. I thought I might get better usage of the disk as a whole, instead of some being 30% full and others overflowing and having to dump to tape during the backups. If you've had any good or bad experience with this could you pass it on please? I would guess from time to time I could "move data" to get the tapes to all combine. I also think that after time it would all migrate on its own through reclamation right? I have co-location on for the onsite tape pools only. Any info is appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154
