Administrator Tip: Five steps to setting up a shared storage pool

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Published by Search400.com   March 17, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  RJS Software: FREE Document Imaging Whitepaper  Today's Highlights   >>  FEATURED TIP:  Five steps to setting up a shared storage pool >>  TECHNICAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED:  More tips, advice on setting up a shared storage pool >>  EXPERT WEBCAST:  Honey, I shrunk my backup/recovery windows  Tips   FEATURED TIP How to increase performance by grouping users into separate storage pools -- Part IV by Ron Turull Five steps to setting up a shared storage pool You've learned about the advantages of putting active users in their own storage pool, you've learned how to create a private storage pool, and you've learned how to route users to that pool. Now let's talk about how to set up a shared storage pool. >>View Complete Tip SPONSORED BY: RJS Software FREE Document Imaging Whitepaper Are you still using paper-based processes? Do you waste precious time trying to find stored or archived documents? Is document storage eating up costly real estate in your office? Check out this FREE white paper to see how a quality document and image management system can improve business processes and save your company time and money. More information  Technical Questions Answered   The right storage pool for the job Take a look at some specialized tuning techniques that can make the difference when trying to get your system to fall within standard performance levels. Control performance of jobs in a storage pool Learn how to how to set the two parameters that govern the performance of jobs in a storage pool: activity levels and pool size. How to configure a private storage pool In this tip Ron Turull looks at how you use activity levels and pool size to configure a private storage pool and how to route certain users into that storage pool. Top 10 administrator tips of 2003 Keeping up to date on new techniques isn't always easy. Let Search400.com help. Here you?ll find the most popular and useful systems management tips of 2003.  Announcements & Links   EXPERT PROFILE Glen H. Bunnell, systems management expert With more than 14 years' iSeries experience, Glen is your go-to guy for systems management questions. Skills include RPG III, RPG IV, iSeries ILE, open query files, embedded SQL, advanced subfile programming, operations background, operating systems upgrade and hardware upgrades. Glen is also familiar with the network side of things, including the IFS and installing a Netfinity server in an iSeries box with Windows 2000. Glen has spent most of those 14 years in a manufacturing background with a little in experience in retail sales. He has been involved in all aspects of the company from financials to order entry through manufacturing and production through the distribution system. 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