Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide - Release 4.x (OL-18091-01, February 2009)

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide
OL-18091-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 5 Cisco SME Tape Configuration
Adding Tape Groups
Figure 5-1 shows the Cisco SME tape backup environment.
Figure 5-1 Cisco SME Tape Backup Environment and Configuration
The following concepts are used in tape management procedures:
• Key management settings (see the “Key Management Settings” section on page 6-4)
• Auto-volume group (see the “Auto-volume grouping” section on page 4-9)
• Key-on-Tape (see the “Unique Key with Key-On-Tape” section on page 6-4)
• Compression (see the “Compression” section on page 4-9)
• Tape recycling (see the “Tape Recycling” section on page 6-4)
• Exporting volume groups (see the “Exporting Volume Groups” section on page 6-10)
• Importing volume groups (see the “Importing Volume Groups” section on page 6-12)
Note If data is written to a partially non-Cisco SME encrypted tape, it is left in clear text. When a tape is
recycled or relabeled, the tape will be encrypted by Cisco SME.
Adding Tape Groups
Note If a tape is written before Cisco SME is activated, it will remain a clear text tape and will only become
an encrypted tape when it is reformatted or relabeled on a tape drive that is defined in an active Cisco
SME environment.
Note Messages are logged to the switch when the tapes bypass encryption.
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Backup
server 1
Backup
server 2
Cisco SME Cluster
Tape library
Tape volume
Tape volume group
Tape group
backup environment
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