Virtual TapeServer 6.04.01 Operations and Administration Guide
6 | Introduction
• Imports and exports from and to physical drives
• Instant DR operations
The Virtual Media - Operation page is the homepage, though you can click Virtual Media on 
the navigation pane to display the Virtual Media - Operation page again. The refresh button 
at the top of the page enables you to update the information displayed on the Virtual Media 
page. 
If VTS is not running, this page displays the following message: “TapeServer is not 
running!” To start VTS, click Supervisor Functions on the navigation pane and then click 
Start TapeServer (under Processes). You must have the Stop and Start TapeServer access 
right to start VTS.
The table lists the host devices, pools, and virtual tapes configured on the VTS server. (This 
information is not listed if VTS is not running.) The host devices are the virtual tape drives 
that are displayed on the System Overview page (click View Configurations to view this 
page). The virtual tape drives correspond to vaults that were configured before VTS shipped.
You can sort the contents of the table by clicking a column heading; by default, the contents 
are sorted by host device. 
• The size(MB) column indicates whether a tape is unlabeled (empty) or labeled (0). It also 
indicates the data capacity that is used after a backup runs. (If a labeled tape is erased, 
the value in this column returns to 0.) If you click the link, a pop-up dialog box is 
displayed listing tape data.
• The c/ratio column indicates the compression ratio, if compression is enabled for VTS. 
• If the limit column is displayed, it specifies the pool size limit next to all virtual tapes in a 
pool. The limit is set on the Pool Maintenance page. 
A red dot in the pool column indicates that the pool contains no virtual tapes. If SecureVTS is 
enabled, 
 is displayed in the pool column, indicating that the pool is encrypted. Otherwise,   
is displayed. The + symbol indicates that the pool contains virtual tapes. Click + to display the 










