Fujitsu Siemens Computers CentricStor V3.1D, User Manual

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CentricStor - Virtual Tape Library Administering the tape cartridges
2.5.4 Reorganization of the tape cartridges
When a logical volume is released by the host’s volume management facility (e.g. MAREN
in BS2000/OSD), it is flagged accordingly in the CentricStor data maintenance facility which
contains the metadata for each volume. This process, combined with updates (see the
section
section “Creating a directory” on page 36 ), will cause the areas containing invalid
data on the real tape cartridges to increase more and more over time (stacked volume with
gaps). If the number of scratch tapes for a CentricStor system falls below a configurable
lower limit, the PLM automatically performs a reorganization by using the VLM to load any
logical volumes still valid into the RAID system and then, so to speak, moving them
piecemeal onto scratch tapes.
Figure 12: Example of a reorganization
Read tape: Tape cartridge that still contains valid data but has no free space for write
operations
Scratch tape: Tape cartridge that only contains invalid data and has been released for
rewriting
Write tape: Tape cartridge that still contains space for write operations
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LV0003 LV0004 LV0005
LV0006 LV0007 LV0008
LV0011 LV0009 LV0010
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