Creating A Cleaning Partition - Spectra Logic Spectra T950V User Manual

Chapter 6 — Configuring and Managing Partitions
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The following sections describe using the BlueScale partition wizard to
create a cleaning partition for your library. If you know that you want to
use Auto Drive Clean with a storage partition, it is easier to configure the
cleaning partition before you configure the storage partition(s). If you
choose to create the storage partitions before you create the cleaning
partition, Auto Drive Clean is not enabled until you modify the storage
partitions to assign a cleaning partition to them.
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Description
Decide on the exporting controller (an LTO drive or RIM2) for the library
robotics.
Important: If the exporting controller is used by other partitions, wait for
any moves in progress to complete, and make the controller offline to all
host applications before creating a new partition.
Notes:
 If you plan to select both ports on the exporting controller, make sure that the
software used with the partition supports using multiple control paths and
that the ports are cabled correctly. Selecting both ports provides redundancy,
but requires software that supports two control paths to the robotics.
 You can select multiple similar exporting controllers (RIM2s or drives), and
export the same changer interface over them to provide redundancy, as long
as your storage management software supports this. These multiple paths
cannot be used at the same time.
 The maximum number of exporters supported by the library is six.
 Six drive exporters can be used for six different partitions, or multiple
exporters can be configured in the same partition, reducing the maximum
number of partitions.
 A single RIM2 can export up to 16 partitions, but still only count as one
exporter.
If the robotic control path is provided by a RIM2, decide what port addressing
(soft addressing or Loop ID) and Fibre mode (Loop, Fabric, or Auto‐negotiate)
each port on the controller uses. If you select soft addressing, each Fibre
Channel port is assigned a unique address when it connects to the Fibre
Channel arbitrated loop, fabric, or SAN. If you do not use soft addressing, each
port uses the fixed Loop ID you set.
For each Fibre Channel drive, decide whether to use soft addressing or an
assigned Loop ID. If you select soft addressing, each Fibre Channel port is
identified by an address assigned to the drive when it connects to the Fibre
Channel arbitrated loop, fabric, or SAN. If you do not use soft addressing, each
port uses the fixed Loop ID you set.
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Note: If you want to configure the storage partitions first, skip to
Creating a Storage Partition on page 170.

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