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:

Overwrite and append periods for media take precedence over tape drive priority.

To create a cascaded drive pool

  1. On the navigation bar, click Devices.

  2. Select Cascaded Drive Pools.

  3. Under Device Pool Tasks in the task pane, select New device pool.

  4. Select the appropriate options as follows, and then click OK:

    Device pool name

    Type the name of the new cascaded device pool that you want to create.

    Description

    Description of the cascaded drive pool.

    Device type

    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.

    Device sub-type:

    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.

    Select the devices to be included in this device pool.

    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.

More Information

Deleting drives from a cascaded drive pool

Deleting a cascaded drive pool