From: GUILLAUMONT Etienne [mailto:eguillau AT RGB-TECHNOLOGIE DOT FR] 
> I would like to know if it is possible to have a storage pool 
> on a remote machine without installing TSM on it. Typically, 
> what I wan't to do is to use space on a remote server to have 
> a disk or a file storage pool on it. I tried with a file 
> device class and it allows only local disks. A disk devices 
> class goes a little further, but when it tries to format the 
> volume, there's an error. One possibility would be to create 
> a local file storage pool and then to copy the files on the 
> remote servers and put the file volumes in offline state, or 
> something like that, but is there something easier ? I tried 
> that with TSM 5.1.5

Why would you want to do this? Disk (particularly local disk) is cheap
these days. The lag resultant from Windows drive mappings or (shudder!)
NFS mounts will greatly slow your throughput.

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Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)