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Contents
1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.1
Objective and target group for the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2
Concept of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.3
Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.4
Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2
CentricStor - Virtual Tape Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1
The CentricStor principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2
Hardware architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.2.1
ISP (Integrated Service Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2.1.1
VLP (Virtual Library Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2.1.2
ICP (Integrated Channel Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.2.1.3
IDP (Integrated Device Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.2.1.4
ICP_IDP or IUP (Integrated Universal Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.2.2
RAID systems for the Tape Volume Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.2.3
FibreChannel (FC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2.4
FC switch (fibre channel switch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2.5
Host connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.3
Software architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.4
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5
Administering the tape cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5.1
Writing the tape cartridges according to the stacked volume principle . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5.2
Repeated writing of a logical volume onto tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.5.3
Creating a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.5.4
Reorganization of the tape cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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