Quantum DXi V-Series Manual page 2

Quantum DXi-Series Command Line Interface (CLI) Guide
6-67081-09 Rev B
February 2014
VTL Configuration CLI Commands
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Listing Existing VTL and Its Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Listing Available Library Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Listing of Supported Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Adding a VTL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Editing a VTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Deleting a VTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Listing the Media Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Creating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Listing the Media and Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Media Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Deleting All Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Turning a VTL Online/Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Listing Available Hosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Adding a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Editing a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Deleting a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Listing Targets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Listing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Listing the SAN Client Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Adding a SAN Clients Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Deleting a SAN Client Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Listing VTL Storage Locations and Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Moving Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Unloading Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Resetting the VTL Target Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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