On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:
> We have TSM setup with several tape pools in our 3494. The tape
> pools are collocated. When we add scratch volumes to the library,
> TSM grabs the scratch tapes for the tape pools even though there are
> lots of tapes only partially full.
Look at the setting "Maximun Scratch Volumes Allowed".
>From the Web Gui it is under:
Server Storage
Storage Pools
Sequientrial Access Storage Pools
You then select the storage pool to which the 3494 belongs to and set the
number scratch tapes there.
>I understand this - it's the effect of collocation.
I am not sure this statement is correct.
Collocation attempts to keep data for a particular node either all in one
tape or all data for one file space in one tape. This is not directly
related to how many scratch tapes are used.
