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iXOS-JUKEMAN — an overview
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1.3 iXOS-JUKEMAN — an overview
iXOS-JUKEMAN is the leading software product for managing jukeboxes,
drives, and recorders for optical disks. It provides simple and efficient ac-
cess to optical storage devices with unrivaled performance and flexibility.
Simplicity
iXOS-JUKEMAN presents all available disks as a standard file system,
completely hiding the jukeboxes. The UNIX version acts as a standard
NFS file server; the NT version acts as a standard NT file system that can
be shared across all available protocols. Users can access the disks as
easily as they would access a shared hard disk. Version 2.2 also allows
clients to concurrently write disks.
Efficiency
The file system server provides data and directory structure caching, and
powerful device management and job scheduling features. As a result,
iXOS-JUKEMAN provides the industry’s highest performance - even un-
der extremely high load use.
In addition, iXOS-JUKEMAN’s redundant disk management means you
can count on quick response times with the added advantage of protec-
tion against hardware failure.
Flexibility
iXOS-JUKEMAN has been carefully designed to ensure support for a wide
range of environments, including a range of mixed clients and network
protocols.
In addition, iXOS-JUKEMAN is highly customizable. For example, multi-
ple views can be defined with various name formats and configurable
subsets of visible disks.