Virtual TapeServer 8.0 Configuration Guide

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Creating and Managing Virtual Media
VTS organizes data in vaults, which are defined for you. Vaults contain pools, and pools
contain virtual tapes. You can create, modify, and delete pools. You can perform the following
on virtual tapes:
• Mount and unmount
• Encrypt and decrypt, if Data Encryption is licensed
• Export to physical tape (tape-to-tape export and stacked tape export)
• Replicate or export to a remote host, if Data Replication is licensed
• Import from physical tape, from a remote host, a physical tape drive, or a physical library
•Erase
• Delete
You can also manage virtual tape locks. And, of course, you can backup and restore virtual
tapes from the host server, though these procedures are not provided here.
This chapter describes how to manage and use pools and virtual tapes.
Note Be sure to display the online help; click About on the navigation pane of the web
interface and then click the Help Set link in the Product Documentation section of
the About page. Full details are provided in the help and are necessary to complete
the procedures in this chapter.
Creating pools
This section describes how to create a pool on the Pool Maintenance page. After creating a
pool, you can also modify or delete it as described in the help.
Note Vaults are used for storing pools only; VTS uses vaults for virtual tapes and and VTD
components exclusively. Files and applications should be installed in other storage
locations, such as the root partition. In addition, customer data should not be stored
on VAULT00, which provides a small amount of space needed for system
maintenance.
For information about encrypting and decrypting virtual tapes in a pool, see Encrypting and
decrypting virtual tapes on page 70.