Virtual TapeServer 8.4 Release Notes

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Introduction

Virtual TapeServer (VTS) is a fully integrated virtual tape, hardware and software solution.

VTS offers complete disaster recovery capabilities. As a primary repository for data center

backups, VTS can be used as secondary tiered storage for replicated data to meet disaster

recovery requirements.

Overview of features

Release 8.4 introduces the following new features and support to VTS. Refer to online help for

information about using any of the new features.

• A virtual tape can now be

copied from a DATA partition to a VAULT partition through the

Hosted Data page.

• A virtual tape can now be moved from one pool to another.

• Up to 4 digits may be used to specify virtual ta

pe size. Previously, only three digits could

be specified which limited the size of a virtual tape above 999GB to 1TB or 2TB.

• Updated WAN acceleration which boosts performance and

resolves network loading

issues.

• Locks are now sorted by virtual tape name on the Mounts/Locks page.

• Stacked Export jobs can now be configured to allow the export of empty cartridges.

• VTS now includes emulation for LTO-5 tape drives.

• When autocopy is setup, the number of retries

can now be configured.

• The amount of time VTS waits before retrying a mou

nt request can now be configured in

the configuration file. This can be used to reduce the number of “unable to mount due to

drives not being available” events generated.

• A list of virtual tapes can now be part of the system restor

e image, the list will be used to

recreate empty tapes in the vaults when the system image is restored.

• VTS now supports a Quad port 8GB Fibre Channel HBA