Instruction manual

29 Setting Up the miSAN
Cybernetics UM-MV-86-B1-0801
3. Select the “Create virtual tapes…” option.
A window will appear showing the current number of virtual tapes and their disk
space allocation over the total storage capacity.
4. Choose either the
Basic or Advanced tab to use for creating the virtual tapes.
(See “Create Virtual Tapes” on page 41 for explanations of each tab.)
5. Enter a “Number of virtual tapes.”
6. For the
Advanced tab, choose to “Use all available space” or “Specify the tape
size,” and then select the free space on the disk to add the tapes to.
7. Click
Set/Add to allocate the disk space. The “Item” column for the affected
disk(s) will be updated to show how the miSAN-V-Series will allocate the tapes.
8. Once the desired virtual tapes have been added, click the
Apply changes button
to execute the changes to the tape cache. A confirmation box will appear; click
Yes to continue. A box will appear while the miSAN-V-Series commits the
changes to the disk(s). The “Create virtual tapes” window will close when finished.
Creating Virtual Devices
The miSAN-V-Series can be configured to emulate up to the purchased maximum
number of virtual tape drives, whether standalone or assigned to a virtual stacker,
based on the miSAN-V-Series model.
1. Connect to the miSAN-V-Series using the Web Control Panel in a web browser.
2. Select the “Tools” option from the main menu bar, once the Web Control Panel
has loaded.
3. Select the “Configure virtual devices…” option.
A window will appear showing the current number of virtual devices.
4. Enter the desired number of standalone tape drives.
5. Enter the desired number of stackers.
6. Enter the desired number of tape drives and slots for each stacker.
Caution
Make sure to format the disks before creating virtual tapes for the first
time. Use the Format disks tab to do so. Failure to initially format the
disks may cause errors when creating virtual tapes. After creating
virtual tapes, remember that formatting the disks will erase the data
stored on all disks used for the virtual tape cache.