Scalar I500 User's Guide - Quantum scalar i500 User Manual

Scalar i500 User's Guide

• HP LTO-5 Fibre Channel
• HP LTO-6 Fibre Channel or Ethernet
• IBM LTO-6 Fibre Channel or Ethernet
• IBM LTO-7 Ethernet
• You can have LTO-4, LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 EDLM-scanning
drives in the same EDLM library managed partition.
• An EDLM library managed partition can support any number of
EDLM-scanning drives (within the normal support of the physical
library).
• LTO-4, LTO-5, and LTO-6 EDLM scanning drives in the EDLM
library managed partition must be connected to a Fibre Channel
blade (FCB) or Ethernet Expansion blade (EEB). LTO-7 EDLM
scanning drives in the EDLM managed partition must be connected
to a Ethernet Expansion blade (EEB). Each blade supports up to four
tape drives. You can use multiple blades to support the EDLM-
scanning drives.
• EDLM scanning drives cannot be connected to a Fibre Channel blade
(FCB) and Ethernet Expansion blade (EEB) simultaneously.
• It is recommended (although not required) that the Fibre Channel
blades used for EDLM scanning drives have only EDLM scanning
drives attached, and recommended that the blade not be connected to
a host. Otherwise, the host will have access to the EDLM drives. For
this reason, we strongly discourage using the same blade for EDLM
drives and host-connected 4 Gb/s SNW drives. If this must be done,
the FC I/O blade must be "channel zoned" to prevent host access to
the EDLM scanning drives.
• Tape drives in the EDLM library managed partition will only be used
for EDLM scanning purposes.
• An EDLM library managed partition can be composed of a mix of
licensed and unlicensed slots. Unlicensed slots will be used first, but
if the size of a newly configured EDLM partition exceeds the number
of available unlicensed slots, then the empty licensed slots will be
used.
• Standard tape drive cleaning policies apply to the tape drives in the
EDLM library managed partition.
• You can set up EDLM scanning policies on the EDLM library
managed partition.
Chapter 8 Extended Data Lifecycle Management
About EDLM
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