Migrating data to upgraded drives

If you upgrade all of the tape drives in a library, you can preserve your existing policy definitions to migrate and expire existing data, and you can use the new drives to store data.

Before you begin

The following scenario assumes that you already have a primary storage pool for a DISK device class that is named POOL1.

Procedure

  1. To migrate data to a storage pool that is created for the new drives, specify the NEXTSTGPOOL parameter. For example, to migrate data from an existing storage pool, POOL1, to the new storage pool, POOL2, issue the following command:
    update stgpool pool1 nextstgpool=pool2
  2. Update the management-class definitions to store data in the DISK storage pool by using the UPDATE MGMTCLASS command.