Virtual TapeServer 8.2 Configuration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Virtual TapeServer for NonStop Servers Configuration Guide
- Preface
- Introduction
- Overview of Tasks
- Reconfiguring Vaults
- Enabling Licensed Features
- Configuring Ports
- Creating and Managing VTLs and VTDs
- Enabling and Performing Tape-to-tape Exports
- Enabling and Performing Stacked Exports
- Enabling and Configuring Data Replication
- Enabling and Configuring Role Swapping
- Configuring EMS Communication
- Enabling and Configuring Data Encryption
- Creating and Managing Virtual Media
- Enabling and Configuring Scan/Cleanup
- Configuring User Accounts
- Configuring Web Interface Preferences
- Managing the VTS Server
- Troubleshooting
- Maintaining GFS for VTS
- Reinstalling and Restoring VTS
- Attaching External Devices after Initial Deployment
- TCP/IP Ports and Protocols
- Index
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Reconfiguring Vaults
By default, vault storage is preconfigured 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.
Note Vaults are used for storing pools only; VTS uses vaults for virtual tapes 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 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. A portion of the space is reserved for system
use during major upgrades and, due to its small size, should not be used for everyday
storage.
• 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.
Note Up to four primary partitions are supported. If you want to configure additional
partitions, you must purchase additional storage.
Before you can view or modify the storage configuration, download the following:
• HP SmartStart (32-bit version), which provides step-by-step ProLiant server deployment
assistance. 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.