Pool Allocation

Pools are logical groupings of media (volumes) at your site (for example, a pool can be defined for each department in your organization). Organization of media information by pool can be particularly useful for allocating and budgeting removable media by department.

When a department’s job requests a scratch volume, Control-M/Tape determines the appropriate pool for that job according to user specified criteria (in a rule definition). Control-M/Tape then verifies that the mounted volume is from the correct pool.

For more information, see Pool Definition Screen.