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Chapter 8 Managing Drives and Disks
Working with Drive Pools
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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 8
Use this procedure to add a drive pool.
1 From the SNSM home page, choose Config Drive Pool from the
Admin menu. The Configure Drive Pools screen appears.
Note: This procedure requires restarting the Storage Manager
component.