Table 11 Cartridge tab parameters
The Location column identifies each element of the library that is available to hold a cartridge.
There are three types of element:
Location:
•
Mail slot:
which is a dedicated slot that is used to hold a cartridge that is ready for
exporting to or importing from physical tape. It is not used with HP B6000 products.
•
Tape drive:
which is populated when there is activity on a cartridge. You can also move
a cartridge into a tape drive by using the
Move Cartridge
drop-down menu in Edit mode.
•
Slot n:
which is one of the standard library slots
A barcode is an 8– or 6–digit, alphanumeric, unique identifier for a cartridge within the HP
StoreOnce Backup System. Barcodes are shared with the backup application, if requested.
Barcode:
The backup application may also choose to assign its own internal identifier to the cartridge
but, if it does so, it cannot assign this identifier to the Cartridge barcode.
Barcodes are generated automatically but may be edited by the user. If you choose to edit
the barcode:
•
It must be unique and must not start with the letters “CLN” or “DG” because these are
reserved designations for cleaning and diagnostic cartridges.
•
It should be a minimum of 4 characters. Valid ASCII characters are A-Z, a-z, 0–9, space
and hyphen. Anything less than 8 characters will be appended with space characters.
This checkbox indicates whether the slot is included in a replication mapping configuration.
It cannot be edited from this page.
Mapped Slot:
This shows the actual used capacity in MB or GB. If this is
Blank
, the cartridge may be
deleted using the
delete
icon, see below. Non-blank cartridges cannot be removed so the
Remove button will not be shown. Only Blank cartridges can be removed from the mail slot.
Used Size:
This defaults to the appropriate capacity for the drive emulation type selected on the
Devices
tab. This value may be changed if the Used Size is Blank, see below. The maximum value
allowed is 3200 GB.
Max Size:
This is a check box that allows you to enable (checked) and disable (unchecked) write
protection, see below.
Write Protected:
This drop-down list is displayed in Edit mode and allows you to move the cartridge to an
empty (blank) slot, mail slot or tape drive.
Move Cartridge:
This tells you when the cartridge was last written to and is useful when identifying data for
copying or exporting.
Last Written:
Empty slots
Empty slots are slots that contain no cartridges; all the fields are empty.
•
Tape drive row: A library consists of two devices; a tape drive and changer device. This
location refers to the tape drive element of the library. It is normally only populated when the
backup application on the host is writing to or reading from the library.
•
Mail slot row: This location refers to the slot that is used for importing and exporting data to
a physically attached tape drive. It is not used with HP B6000 products.
•
Numbered slot row: This slot is empty after a
Delete
operation or after the backup application
has moved data to the mail slot for export.
Once a numbered slot is empty, the
Create
button may be used to create a new, blank cartridge.
To create a cartridge (administrators only)
NOTE:
You can only create a cartridge in an empty slot.
Click on the
Create
button. There is a new right-hand column,
Add Cartridge
. Slots that are empty
have a checkbox in this column.
You can select individual slots by clicking in the appropriate checkboxes. When you have selected
the slots where cartridges should be added, click
Create
.
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VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries)
