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Use the disk with more space in a Pool

rcunha
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Hi,
I have some Iscsi disks, some have 10 tb and others 5tb in a Pool of disks.
Sometimes I have more space on the disks of 10 tb like 2tb, but the disks of 5tb are full on that moment, like some 100 gb free.
But BackupExec always insist to use the disks of 5 tb with low space.
*Life Recicle is On and working.

There is a way that change something for it use the disks with more space first?
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pkh
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See the section in the BE 16 Admin Guide entitled "Specifying a default selection method for a device in a storage device pool" on page 414.

You need to use BEMCLI to change the selection method of the storage pool. e.g.

Get-BEStorageDevicePool -Name "<name of storage pool>" | 

     Set-BEStorageDevicePool -SelectionMethod MostFreeSpaceFirst

 

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pkh
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See the section in the BE 16 Admin Guide entitled "Specifying a default selection method for a device in a storage device pool" on page 414.

You need to use BEMCLI to change the selection method of the storage pool. e.g.

Get-BEStorageDevicePool -Name "<name of storage pool>" | 

     Set-BEStorageDevicePool -SelectionMethod MostFreeSpaceFirst

 

Ok, thanks for your help.
I have another question about it, supose that I change the selection method for MostFreeSpaceFirst, if the disks that have more space are not avaiable, the Jobs Go to the others disks on the Pool?

pkh
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It will pick whichever available disk with the most space

Ok, I did the command on the BEMCLI.
It´s like this picture here that I am upload, I think it is work, It is only it ? 

 

pkh
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Yes

Ok, after do the command, this configuration is saved? There is no problem if I restart The machine?

pkh
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Yes. No problem

Ok, Thanks for your help, I will make some tests here.

Studying it I found the command to see the status of the Storage Pool:

Get-BEStorageDevicePool -Name "Storage device pool 0004" | Select-Object Name, SelectionMethod