Pool Management

The pool management organizes storage into Primary and Secondary categories. The storage pool acts as an abstraction layer, bridging task movement and storage classes.

Storage Pool is a requirement before configuring a Workflow.

Storage Pools are defined in each class of storage :

Primary Storage

Use to declare the data source.

The Primary storage can be a NAS Storage or a Cloud Storage

Secondary Storage

Use to declare the data destination.

Workflow can be :

• Offline Archive : NAS, Cloud or Tape.

• Active Archive : NAS, Cloud or Tape

The abstraction does the difference between what is considered as Primary Storage and as Secondary Storage.

For Secondary Storage, pools can be defined to organize the different storage systems available per type of Workflow Policy.

Schema of pool management

Pool Storage configuration

For NAS Storage and Object Storage

Storages Services -> Pool -> NAS or Cloud Tab

Click the button and filled-in the modal form:

1. Select a name for the Pool

2. Select a type: - Primary Storage (only available for NAS & Cloud Pool) - Active Archive - Offline archive

3. Define the NAS Storage or Object Storage name

4. And define the Target (NAS Storage) or Bucket (Object Storage)

5. Save the Form

For Tape Storage

Storages Services -> Pool -> Tape Tab

Click the button and filled-in the modal form:

1. Select a name for the Pool

2. Select a type: - Active Archive - Offline archive - Data Exchange (only available for tape pool)

3. Define the Tape Library

4. And define the list of Volume(s) which will be part of the pool

5. You have the option to select the option to set directly the tapes in write protection when they are full.

6. Save the Form