VLS9200 user guide (BW402-10009, August 2012)

SolutionPossible causesSymptom
4. Check Increase performance
by disabling support for
Microsoft Backup Utility.
5. Repeat this procedure for each
server visible to each SDLT tape
drive.
NoneThis is expected behavior and does
not indicate a problem.
At reboot, there are spurious critical
FC port failures reported as
notification alerts, usually on every
port. Later, Info notification alerts for
each FC host port are generated,
indicating the FC ports are operating
normally.
In Command View VLS, go to the
License Summary screen (System >
Whenever the VLS detects more arrays
than there are correctly installed
The Identity tab of Command View
VLS reports Total Usable Capacity of
Chassis (on the navigation tree) >licenses, the VLS system will disable0 GB, even though there are working
Licensing. The screen lists all of theALL array storage and report 0 GB of
Total Usable Capacity.
disk arrays available to the VLS
system. licenses currently on the system. The
summary at the top indicates the
number of LTUs on the system and how
many are licensed. Install additional
licenses as needed.
If a blank drive is installed in drive bay
0, the system will not boot. To remedy
A blank drive was installed in drive
bay 0.
After replacing drive 0 in a node, the
system will not boot.
this, switch the drive located in bay 0
with the drive located in bay 1.
Re-enable oversubscription, set the alert
threshold so that the storage pool is
When you disable oversubscription,
the system does not monitor the
When oversubscription is enabled and
you create enough cartridges in a
within the capacity threshold, then waitstorage pool's capacity, even to checkstorage pool to put your free storage
for the pool to return to good (green)that it is no longer at a critical level.
The status will not change.
capacity below the threshold, the pool
may reach critical status. If you then status. Disable oversubscription and the
storage pool will maintain good status.disable oversubscription, your storage
pool will remain in critical status and
will not return to good status—even
after reboot.
Automigration and Replication Issues
Although automigration is configured and managed through the Automigration/Replication tab
on Command View VLS, errors and events are reported through the usual notification alerts. See
Notification Alerts.
IMPORTANT: If a destination library is directly connected to the VLS (LOOP mode), and you
disconnect the destination library to change its connection to be via a SAN (FABRIC mode), you
will need to reboot the VLS in order for this change to work. If you do not reboot, the destination
library will be marked as FAILED after you disconnect and reconnect it.
NOTE: The “mirror_broken” state can occur when there is not enough room on the virtual tape
to create the copy, there are no available slots to create the copy, the library cannot read the
header of the physical tape, the library cannot determine that a tape without a header is blank,
or the library cannot successfully write the header to the virtual tape.
For more help with automigration and replication issues:
• “Monitoring Destination Library Status” (page 64)
• “Replacing a Library” (page 72)
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