Instruction manual

39 Operating the Web Control Panel
Cybernetics UM-MV-86-B1-0801
To create a number of virtual tapes use either the Basic or Advanced tab:
1. Enter a “Number of virtual tapes.”
2. 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..
3. 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.
4. Once the desired virtual tapes have been configured, click the
Apply changes
button to execute the changes to the tape cache. While the miSAN-V-Series
creates the virtual tapes, the “Create virtual tapes” window will be greyed-out and
unavailable; it will close when finished.
Basic Tab
The Basic tab is used for setting a number of virtual tapes to be created as equally
sized out of the total capacity for all disks. The miSAN-V-Series will decide how to use
Note
To remove a virtual tape from the disk cache. Right-click the selected
tape, and then a popup menu will appear with a command to “Remove.”
Caution
Removing a virtual tape from the disk cache will destroy all its contents