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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Creating and Managing VTLs and VTDs
After Virtual TapeServer is deployed, you can create virtual tape libraries (VTLs). A VTL
emulates the functionality of a tape library, which contains one or more tape drives,
magazines that hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges, and a media
changer for loading and unloading tape cartridges. The virtual changers move virtual
cartridges to and from virtual tape drives (VTDs) as instructed by standard host software,
backup management applications, and utilities.
If applicable, a VTL can accept these commands from multiple hosts over Fibre Channel.
Note If multiple host servers will share a VTL, ensure that each host server's operating
system supports device sharing, such as through the use of reservations.
If necessary, you can add a vault for VTL and VTD storage as described in Adding vaults on
external storage devices on page 11.
You can also create standalone VTDs.
It is recommended that you back up the VTS database before and after modifying the VTS
configuration. See
Backing up the VTS server on page 119 for more information.
This chapter describes how to create and modify VTLs and standalone VTDs.
Managing VTLs
The Configure Virtual Devices page enables you to create and modify VTLs. The Manage
Virtual Tapes page enables you to manage the virtual tapes in VTLs.
VTL licenses are provided as part of the capacity license. If you need to enable or modify the
capacity license, see
Enabling Licensed Features on page 15.
Creating a VTL
When you create a VTL, the following are also created:
• The specified number of virtual tape drives (VTDs)
• The specified number of slots
• One virtual tape magazine (VTM), which defines the list of virtual tapes that are resident
in the VTL