Quantum 3.5.1 User Manual

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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
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Use this procedure to add a drive pool.
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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.