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B Adding VTL media
B.1 Adding the VTL media to the container
To add media to an existing VTL container navigate to the Containers menu option. Select and edit the
target VTL container. Use the resulting dialog box field Add More Tape (no of Tape) field to input the
number of tapes to add to the VTL container.
Alternatively you may also use the “vtl –create_carts” cli command for this operation:
> vtl --create_carts --name TEST_VTL_LALA --tapes 10
Created 10 cartridges
B.1.1 VTL media count guidelines
Type
Capacity
Max number of Tapes supported
LTO-4
800GiB
2000
LTO-3
400GiB
4000
LTO-2
200GiB
8000
LTO-1
100Gib
10000
LTO-1
50Gib
10000
LTO-1
10GiB
10000