Performing Riverbed Disaster Recovery › How to Prepare and Test a Riverbed SteelStore Warm Disaster Recovery › Isolate Virtual Volume Volser Ranges

Isolate Virtual Volume Volser Ranges

Using different virtual volser ranges for production and Disaster Recovery testing is an important consideration in warm recovery. Planning makes identifying test volumes to delete at the end of your DR tests easier.

• Use Volume Pools within the CA Vtape parameter library to identify test volumes.

  Up to eight Volume Pools can define virtual volser ranges for new scratch mount requests. If a virtual mount requires a new scratch tape CA Cloud compares the requesting allocated data set or SMS data class name against a set of filters. These filters assign the allocation to a CA Cloud Group. The Group has attributes for controlling how the Virtual Volume is processed.

• Assign Volume Pool1 through Pool7 to groups for new scratch mount requests.

  Volume Pool8 Volser ranges define the Virtual Volumes that the subsystem can mount, but cannot be used for new scratch mount requests.