Background - Earlier this year we moved TSM server from z/OS to Linuxx86_64 
server and just then upgraded 2 TSM Servers to  7.1.7 from 7.1.1, each  with 
9TB of storage divided up across 6 mount points with the storage pool allocated 
as a device class=FILE.  Each systems sequential FILE pool is comprised of 174 
- 50GB volumes. Currently the primary server TSMA has 3.2TB of used space, with 
nothing yet on TSMB.   Our intention was to have TSMA be the primary backup 
server, and TSMB be the offsite server, using Node Replication to sync  the 
servers daily.

Deduplication is not active at this point, but based on my IBM videos and 
documentation it should be turned on with storage containers.

Looking for some assistance. Has anyone converted from using a FILE dev class 
configuration to Storage Containers?
All disk drive space has been allocated.  Should I begin removing volumes to 
free up space so that I can create an LVM for the storage pool container 
directory?  Then slowly move the currently allocated node backup data on the 
volumes to the storage containers?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Larry Bernacki
Project Manager/Systems Programmer
Laboratory Technical Services Branch, ANG-E13
FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center
Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405