Thanks Dwight and kelly,
                      considering the case where the customer  does not
opt for an additional ATL ,Should  an operator  be made available round
the clock to checkin and checkout the volumes for both information
recovery/retrieval and space reclamation.?

Presently the ATL is catering to our needs of retrieval without any
round the clock operator support.




Gogineni



> -----Original Message-----
> From: decook AT amoco DOT com [SMTP:decook AT amoco DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 12:47 PM
> To:   SGogineni AT caiso DOT com
> Cc:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Storage pool space
>
>      OK, something is a little grey here somewhere so to clarify my
> reply
>      lets toss out copypools entirely.
>
>      On your primary storage pool you should be able to easily enhance
> its
>      capacity.  Remember data can flow around in the adsm server
> anywhere
>      and always be retrieved and expired even if there is no natural
> path
>      there (ie you use a "move data blah stg=blahh" and blah can never
> get
>      to blahh via the normal nextpool path)
>
>      We run all our inbound traffic into disk pools that are listed as
> the
>      destinations under the copy groups, then those disk pools are
> moved
>      via migration processes into tape pools found as the "nextpool".
> All
>      our tape pools reside in the same 3494ATL, get scratches from the
> same
>      -bunch- of tapes and release them back into the same general
> slush
>      area.
>
>      All the time I might adjust (due to special needs) the diskpools
> by
>      removing volumes from one diskpool and assigning it to another.
>
>      If a specific tapepool "fills" I just up the "maxscratchtapes"
> number
>      for that pool and make sure my library still contains some
> scratch
>      tapes... IF scratches get physically low I either talk the users
> into
>      getting rid of some of their data or charge them for another S10
> and
>      500 more 3590 tapes (then increase the "maxscratchtapes" number)
>
>      hope this helps,
>                      later,
>                            Dwight
>
>
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> _________________________________
> Subject: Storage pool space
> Author:  SGogineni (SGogineni AT caiso DOT com) at unix,mime
> Date:    7/30/98 6:55 PM
>
>
> Hi,
>    We would soon be reaching a stage where we would need more storage
> spool space. Presently we are trying to reclaim space from the 270Gb
> opticalpool. I understand that offsite ( tapes / optical disks) are
> good
> only for copypools and not for primary storage pools.
>
> My question is whether It is possible to use  additional (tapes/
> opticaldisks) inside the primary storage pool and enhance its
> capacity.
> If not Is it possible to enhance the storage capacity by adding
> another
> opticallibrary( Even if we have to split it into multiple storage
> pools.) ?
>
> Any guidance is appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> Gogineni