Media - Fujitsu ETERNUS CS800 S6 User Manual

2. If there are tape cartridges in any of the tape drives in the partition, move the
cartridges to storage slots (see
drives must be empty.
3. Select the partition and click Delete.
You can select multiple partitions to delete at once.
4. Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
If the partition contains tape cartridges, they are exported from the partition before it
is deleted.
Changing Partition Mode
Change the mode of a VTL partition to take it online or offline. To make backups to a
partition, it must be online. To edit or delete a partition, it must be offline.
To change the partition mode to online, select the partition and click Online.
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To change the partition mode to offline, select the partition and click Offline.
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Taking a partition offline might disrupt backup operations.

10.3.2 Media

The Media page allows you to manage virtual tape cartridges in VTL partitions on the
ETERNUS CS800. Backup applications can write data to virtual tape cartridges just as they
would to physical media.
To access the Media page, on the VTL page, click the Media tab.
The Media page contains the following tabs:
"Media Add" on page 211
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"Media Actions" on page 213
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"Media Move" on page 216
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"Media Unload" on page 218
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Media Add
Use the Media Add page to add a contiguous range of virtual tape cartridges to a VTL
partition. You can specify the initial location, starting barcode, media type, and media
capacity. After the cartridges are created, they are available for backing up data.
It is possible to oversubscribe space on the ETERNUS CS800. In this case, the
total capacity of all media is more than the capacity of the ETERNUS CS800.
To access the Media Add page, on the Media page, click the Add tab (see
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ETERNUS CS800
"Media Move" on page
212).
10.3 VTL Configuration
216). To delete a partition, all
"Media Add
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