Container pools saved the day here too ! On our legacy environment (TSM717), adding dedup to our seqpools just bloated everything, until it became unbearable.
Migrating nodes to the new blueprint replicated servers w/ directory-container-pools solved a lot of our issues, especially with copy-to-tape, as rehydratation is no longer required. We do have certain apprehensions with limitations for eventually migrating from copy-to-tape to copy-to-cloud, but may cheat our way across with VTL-type gateways if need be. Luc