Mixing Tape Drive Types Within Partitions; Modifying Partitions - Quantum scalar i500 User Manual

Mixing Tape Drive Types
Within Partitions

Modifying Partitions

Scalar i500 User's Guide
You cannot create partitions manually from the operator panel. The path
to open the appropriate screen is:
• From the Web client, select
When you automatically create partitions, tape drives with different
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interface types, vendor types, and media generation are placed in
different partitions. If you manually create partitions, you can mix tape
drive types as follows.
• For non-encrypted partitions and for partitions that use Application
Managed Encryption:
• SCSI, FC, and SAS tape drives can be mixed.
• HP and IBM tape drives can be mixed.
• Different media generations (for example, LTO-3, LTO-4, LTO-5)
can be mixed.
• For partitions that use Library Managed Encryption:
• Tape drives must be FC or SAS. FC and SAS tape drives can be in
the same partition.
•
Q-EKM partitions
tape drives.
•
SKM partitions
drives.
For more information on partitions with Library Managed Encryption,
see Step 6: Configuring Partitions for Library Managed Encryption
page 184.
Using the Web client, administrators can modify partition settings any
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time after the partition is created.
The tape drive set as the control path for a particular partition cannot be
deleted from that partition. The check box associated with the control
path is grayed out. For more information on setting the control path, see
Working With Control Paths
The library automatically takes the partition offline before modifying it
and places the partition back online after it is modified.
Chapter 3 Configuring Your Library
Setup > Partitions
can only contain IBM LTO-4 and IBM LTO-5
can only contain HP LTO-4 and HP LTO-5 tape
on page 86.
Working With Partitions
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