That is what I have done. I don't know of a better or different way. One thought that IBM seems to be encouraging is to use FILE devclass for disk storage pools vs the traditional pool & volumes. This way you don't have the additional process of formatting storage pool volumes.
Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: "Lee, Gary D." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 07/09/2010 09:52 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] Shrinking a disk pool Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Tsm server 5.5.4 Suse sles9 under VM 5.3 I have a TSM server running as back end storage for IBM content manager/Ondemand and content manager itself. The OnDemand piece uses archive storage and the content manager uses backups. I would like to shrink the archive pool and re-allocate that storage to the backup pool. I have considered marking the re-allocatable olumes read only, then doing a move data volume_name within the pool, then deleting the empty volume and redefining to the backup pool. Is there an easier way that I haven't seen? Thank you for your time and consideration.
