Owner's manual

ConfiguringtheVLSappliancewiththeVLSDiscoverytool.................. 36
ConfiguringtheVLSapplianceviathedefaultIPAddress .................. 38
Verifying the network configuration............................ 38
Entering the system configuration............................. 40
Configuringsysteminformation ........................... 41
Configuringlogoninformation............................ 41
ConfiguringE-mailalerts .............................. 42
Settingthetimeanddateinformation......................... 43
DeployingiSCSIinitiators................................ 43
ObtainingiSCSIaddressfromhost............................ 45
Creatingvirtualdevices................................... 47
Creatingastandalonetapedevice............................ 47
Creatingatapelibrary................................. 48
Connectingdevices(targets)tobackuphosts(initiators) ..................... 50
4WorkingwiththeVLS1000i.................... 53
Loggingonfromanysystemwithnetworkaccess........................ 53
Understanding the Configurationpage ............................ 54
ReviewingtheBackupHostSummarypage ........................ 54
UnderstandingtheView/EditVirtualLibrarypage ..................... 55
LoggingoffoftheVLSGUI ............................... 57
Understandinghowdynamictapedeviceswork ........................ 57
Checkingcommunicationwithotherappliancesorsystems.................... 57
RefreshingtheVLSGUIdisplay ............................... 58
Relocatinganappliance .................................. 59
RebootingtheVLS..................................... 61
PoweringofftheVLS.................................... 62
5 VLS1000i GUI . . . . . .................... 63
Windowregions...................................... 63
OpeningaVLSGUIsessionfromawebbrowser........................ 64
ClosingaVLSGUIsession ................................. 65
VLSGUItabs ....................................... 65
VLSIdentitytab .................................... 65
Configurationtab ................................... 66
CreateVirtualDevice................................ 66
View/EditVirtualLibrary .............................. 66
View/EditVirtualStandaloneTape.......................... 68
BackupHostSummary ............................... 69
HardwareStatus.................................. 69
Network Configuration............................... 70
System Configuration................................ 70
Supporttab...................................... 71
SoftwareUpdate ................................. 71
Save/Restore Configuration............................. 71
SupportTicket................................... 71
PingHost..................................... 72
ShutDown/Restart................................. 72
VLS1000iHelp .................................. 72
SupportLinks ................................... 72
6Maintenance.......................... 73
Operationalmaintenance.................................. 73
ListofE-mailalerts................................... 73
Log files ....................................... 74
Configuration files................................... 75
Singledrivefailure................................... 76
Non-operationaldiagnosticsandrecovery........................... 77
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