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Chapter 6
Automated Media Pool
The Automated Media Pool (AMP) feature allows you to pool media,
such as scratch tapes, within a library managed partition to facilitate
selective tape cartridge assignments from the media pool to standard
partitions without the need for operator intervention to physically load/
import additional tape cartridges into standard partitions. Instead of
requiring physical import operations to each partition, the Automated
Media Pool can contain a number of tape cartridges that can be moved
or assigned to a partition via a user-interface-initiated media move or
magazine assignment selection at any time.
In addition, the AMP feature allows for the creation of standard
partition AMP extensions such that a standard partition gets created
with a specified number of actual and accessible storage elements as
well as logical, inaccessible element extensions. As a standard partition
requires additional accessible storage elements, logical elements can be
associated with physical magazines from the AMP such that the logical
element extension becomes an actual physical storage element that can
now report an accessible status to a host.
Benefits include:
• You can easily move and reassign tapes from the AMP to standard
partitions and from standard partitions to the AMP. This allows you
to adjust the amount of media within a partition as needed without
performing import/export operations (for more information, see
Moving Media Between Active Vault or AMP and Standard Partitions
on page 704).