Physical Resources - Sun Microsystems Virtual Tape Library User Manual

Understanding the VTL console interface
virtual tape and library information
job status
By right‐clicking on this branch, you can select and generate reports.
Physical Resources
The Physical Resources branch of the VTL object tree lists Fibre Channel HBAs
and storage devices attached to the VTL server. Storage devices include the disk
volumes that hold virtual tapes, physical tape libraries and physical tape drives.
Right‐clicking on this branch or its subbranches brings up context menus that let you
scan devices or prepare devices for use as virtual tape.
The following table describes the icons that describe physical resources in the
console object tree:
Icon
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Description
The T interface icon indicates that this is a target port.
I
The interface icon indicates that this is an initiator port.
The D interface icon indicates that this is a dual‐port interface card.
The red arrow indicates that this interface has no access to storage. Either a device
is not connected to the interface, or the device is down.
The V icon indicates that this disk has been virtualized.
D
The icon indicates that this is a physical ("Direct") device.
The F icon indicates that this is shared storage and is being used by another
server. The Owner field lists the other server.
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