DRIVE STARTUP threshold considerations for MOVEVOL processing

Always review your specifications for DRIVE STARTUP threshold and TAPEDRIVESTARTUP for your Object storage groups. The Move Volume utility causes objects to be written to the storage group of which the source volume is a member.

For example, if the Move Volume utility is running at the same time as one or more OSMC storage management cycles for the same storage group, the write activity in the storage group is increased. As a result, you must consider and account for the drives that the Move Volume utility requires in addition to the drives that are required by the OSMC storage management cycle when determining the appropriate value for the threshold. You must perform this action for each Object storage group containing primary source volumes that are processed by the Move Volume utility as well as for any Object Backup storage group for backup source volumes that are processed by the Move Volume utility.

Attention: Running the Move Volume utility concurrently with the OSMC processing for the storage group that the volume belongs to can cause DB2 contention.