Tivoli Storage Manager for HP-UX Administrator's Guide


Chapter 8. Managing Storage Pools and Volumes

When you configure devices so that the Tivoli Storage Manager server can use them to store client data, you create storage pools and storage volumes. This section gives you overviews and details on storage pools and storage volumes.

The procedures in Chapter 3, Using Magnetic Disk Devices with Tivoli Storage Manager and Chapter 4, Using Removable Media Devices with Tivoli Storage Manager show you how to set up and use devices to provide TSM with server storage. The procedures use the set of defaults that TSM provides for storage pools and volumes. The defaults can work well, but you may have specific requirements not met by the defaults. Three common reasons to change the defaults are the following:

You can also make other adjustments to tune the server for your systems. See the following sections to learn more. For some quick tips, see Table 6.

Concepts:
"Overview: Storage Pools"
"Overview: Volumes in Storage Pools"
"Access Modes for Storage Pool Volumes"
"Overview: The Storage Pool Hierarchy"
"Migration of Files in a Storage Pool Hierarchy"
"Using Cache on Disk Storage Pools"
"Keeping a Client's Files Together: Collocation"
"Reclaiming Space in Sequential Access Storage Pools"
"Estimating Space Needs for Storage Pools"

Tasks:
"Defining or Updating Primary Storage Pools"
"Preparing Volumes for Random Access Storage Pools"
"Preparing Volumes for Sequential Access Storage Pools"
"Defining Storage Pool Volumes"
"Updating Storage Pool Volumes"
Setting Up a Storage Pool Hierarchy
"Monitoring Storage Pools and Volumes"
"Monitoring the Use of Storage Pool Volumes"
"Moving Files from One Volume to Another Volume"
"Deleting a Storage Pool"
"Deleting Storage Pool Volumes"

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

All of the TSM commands can be performed from the administrative Web interface. For more information about using the administrative interface, see Quick Start.


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