NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide (G06.29+)

Initial Configurations

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External Disk Drives

The external disk drives supported in all NonStop S-series systems for the current

RVU are listed in Interactive Upgrade Guide 2.

Tape Drives

The external tape drives supported in NonStop S-series systems for the current RVU

are listed in Interactive Upgrade Guide 2.

Each PMF CRU and IOMF CRU in a system has a SCSI port to which you can connect

an external tape drive. You can also connect a tape drive to an S-PIC on a 6760

ServerNet device adapter.

You must connect a tape drive to group 01 to perform a tape dump.

To determine SCSI port to connect a tape drive to, you need to know the factory-

default configuration for the tape drive. Refer to the SCF Configuration File printout that

is shipped with your server for a listing of names and locations of configured drives.

This file can also be found on the ZSYSCONF subvolume under the name SCF0000.

Virtual TapeServer

Virtual TapeServer allows one or more host systems to read and write data to and from

a RAID array, just as if the system was doing so with a real tape drive. For every host

connection to Virtual TapeServer, the host system “sees” a tape drive. These virtual

tape drives perform in exactly the same way a real tape drive would, without all of the

problems generally associated with real tape drives. For more information about Virtual

TapeServers, See Introduction to Virtual TapeServer Operations (Tape Labs).

Tape Drives for 16-GB Processors

To perform an offline tape dump of a 16-GB processor, you must use a tape drive

attached to enclosure 1 and a tape cartridge with a capacity of at least 20 GB. The

following tape drives and tape media are recommended.

Before planning to use a different tape drive, contact your HP representative.

Tape Drive Tape Cartridge

DLT7000 (5157, 5158, and 5189) Type IV cartridge

Type III XT cartridge

Type III cartridge

CT9840-x 9480 cartridge

CT9841-x 9481 cartridge

N1524A ACL C7972A cartridge

Super DLT (5257, 5258, 5259) Super DLT 1 cartridge