Administrator's Guide

Chapter 9. Managing Storage Pools

A storage pool is a collection of storage volumes belonging to the same device class. The storage volumes contain backed-up, archived, or space-managed files. The group of storage pools you set up for ADSM to use is called ADSM's server storage.

See the following sections:

Concepts:
"Storage Pools"
"How Volumes Are Assigned to Storage Pools"
"The Storage Pool Hierarchy"
"Migration of Files in a Storage Pool Hierarchy"
"The Use of Cache on Disk Storage Pools"
"Collocation on Sequential Access Storage Pools"
"Reclaiming Space in Sequential Access Storage Pools"
"Estimating Space Needs for Storage Pools"
Tasks:
"Defining or Updating Storage Pools"
"Monitoring the Use of Storage Pools"
"Deleting a Storage Pool"

In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using the ADSM command line interface. For information about the ADSM commands, see ADSM Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of an ADSM administrative client.

All of the ADSM commands can be performed from the administrative client web interface. A Version 3 administrative client GUI is also available for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems. For more information about using the administrative interfaces, see ADSM Quick Start. You can find detailed help for using the graphical user interfaces in the online help facilities.