Virtual TapeServer 6.04.04 for NonStop Servers Installation Guide

Reconfiguring Vaults

By default, vault storage is configured on the Virtual TapeServer (VTS) server. Prior to using

this storage, you may want to review and change the configuration. For example, you may

want to define additional vaults, which provide a convenient way to separate data for

different applications or users. You may want to reconfigure vault storage before creating

virtual tape drives (VTDs) or using VTS, though you can use VTS without reconfiguring

vaults.

For example, model VT5900-K provides a base set of six 1TB disks. These disks are configured

as a single RAID 5 with no hot spares. The raw storage capacity of this RAID array is 5TB.

After formatting, the storage capacity is approximately 4.6TB, and the /boot, /, and swap file

systems are created. The following vaults are created:

• VAULT00, which provides 80GB of storage. It is recommended that you unmount

VAULT00 in production environments.

• VAULT01, which provides the remainder of the storage (approximately 4.5TB).

If additional internal storage is purchased (model VT5900-6TB), another 6TB of storage is

available and VAULT 10 and VAULT11 are configured.

Prior to using VTS, you may want to shrink the size of VAULT01 or reconfigure the layout of

the additional internal storage, possibly creating more vaults.

Before you can view or modify the storage configuration, download the following:

• HP SmartStart 8.20 (32-bit version), which provides step-by-step ProLiant server

deployment assistance. Download HP SmartStart from here:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/

software1/cd/p1040463476/v47673/smartstart-8.20-0-x86.zip. To use HP SmartStart, you

must burn a CD or DVD that you can insert into the VTS server’s DVD drive.

• HP Array Configuration Utility User Guide, which you must use during the following

procedure. Download the guide from here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf.

Reviewing the vault layout

You must use a Linux partition editor, such as fdisk, parted, druid, or the HP Array

Configuration Utility, to view the current configuration. (The HP Array Configuration Utility

is available as part of HP SmartStart, but using HP SmartStart requires that you reboot

VTS.) The following steps use parted to view the current partition layout:

1. Log in to the VTS server as the root user:

2. Use the df command to view the current disk utilization:

df -h