Creating a cascaded drive pool
When you select drives
for a cascaded drive pool, only drives of the same drive type are
displayed for selection. Any drives that you move to a cascaded
drive pool are removed from device pools that they are currently
in.
Note:
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Overwrite and append periods for media take
precedence over tape drive priority.
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To create a cascaded drive pool
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On the navigation bar,
click .
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Select .
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Under Device Pool Tasks
in the task pane, select .
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Select the appropriate
options as follows, and then click :
Device pool name
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Type the name of the new cascaded device pool that you want to
create.
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Description
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Description of the cascaded drive pool.
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Device type
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Select a device type from the drop-down list to filter the list
of drives available for the cascaded drive pool. Only drives of
this type are displayed for selection.
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Device sub-type:
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If device sub-types are available, you can select a subtype to
increase the filter on the list of drives available for the
cascaded drive pool. Only drives of this type and sub-type are
displayed for selection.
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Select the devices to be included in this device pool.
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Select the devices that you want to include in the new cascaded
drive pool. Any devices that you move to a cascaded drive pool are
removed from any device pools they are currently in.
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