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Interface to
VolServ
After both FileServ and VolServ have been installed and
initially configured, drive pool and association of a MediaClass
group with a library must be established within VolServ for
FileServ communications.
Drive Pools A drive pool is composed of a single drive or group of drives
that have the same capability. Drive pool names used within
FileServ must exist in VolServ before any data transfer
operations can be performed.
A drive pool is assigned a unique name to identify the drives or
system using the drives.
The system administrator can either specify a drive pool name
when adding DataClass group in FileServ, or can use the default
drive pool name found in the system parameter
VS_DEFAULT_DRIVEPOOL. The system administrator can also
limit a set of drives to a set of clients by creating different drive
pools and specifying the names of each drive pool for each
DataClass group associated with those users.
During FileServ installation, a drive pool name is created
containing all drives. The drive pool name is then added to
VolServ. The generated drive pool name is under FileServ’s
VS_DEFAULT_DRIVEPOOL parameter. If this name is not
configured in VolServ, all requests for data operations fail.
Several FileServ commands allow the user to specify a drive
pool using the
-v option. If a drive pool name is specified, it
must either reside or be created within VolServ before any
FileServ commands can be executed.