We use a combination.
Because we use high volume media (DLT) it doesn't make sense
to collocate everything. Our small clients are spread out over three
non-collocate storage pools, and our large clients are placed into
a single co-located storage pool.

On Friday, November 05, 1999 6:50 AM, Liyan Cao [SMTP:Liyan.Cao AT CHARMING DOT 
COM]
wrote:
> In our environment, we have 8 Novell Client, 9 Window's Client, 10 AIX
Client,
> 5
> Oracle Client, 1 Informix Client.
> The former ADSM Admin configured one pool without collocation. So the files
> for
> each client are all over the places.
> It'll  be a disaster if we want to recover just one client.
> I plan to redesign and implement from scratch now.
>
> Does anybody have a suggestion on :
>
> separate pool for each client so we'll have 33 pools
>    vs.
> 5 pools, each pool for the clients on same platform with collocation on?
>
> Thank you.
> Liyan