I echoed Stefan, Rick and Luc... 110% We've been using the directory-container-pools for about 2 years and work great! And yes, plan accordingly and monitor the TSM-DB size as you migrate backups to the container-pools
--Alex On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:31 AM Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX] <luc.micha...@stm.info> wrote: > 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 > >