Secure Data Through Write Protection; Move Virtual Tape Cartridges; Raid Group Procedures; Increase The Size Of A Vtl Or Replace Faulted Drives - ATTO Technology FastStream VT 5700 Installation And Operation Manual

Secure data through Write Protection

For added security, write protection can be enabled for
any tape cartridge with a VTL. When write protection
is enabled, existing data on the tape cartridge cannot
be overwritten or erased.
The data can be sorted by any field by clicking the
label for the field. Clicking twice reverses the sort
order.
1 Follow Preliminary steps
Manage from the left menu.
2 The Manage VTL page appears. Click the
Virtual Tape Libraries arrow.
3 Select Enable/Disable Write Protection .
4 Click Next .
5 Select the tab with the name of the VTL for
which you wish to change write protection.
6 Select the element you wish to change.
7 Click Commit .
8 A warning box appears. If you wish to proceed,
select Yes . Selecting No ends the procedure
without making a change.
9 The Enable/Disable Write Protection page
appears.

RAID group procedures

You may change the RAID groups underlying your
VTLs using the ExpressNAV VTL manager.
Increase the size of a VTL or replace
faulted drives
If you have unallocated drives, you can increase the
number of drives used by an existing VTL by adding an
unallocated drive to the VTL RAID group. The
increased capacity of the RAID group becomes
additional Virtual Tape cartridges in the library. You
may have to add more than one drive.
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If you wish to protect other elements or elements in
another library, select the library and repeat this
procedure.

Move Virtual Tape cartridges

The Move Medium page is an interface which
simulates a generic library front panel operation.
1 Follow Preliminary steps
Manage from the left menu.
2 The Manage VTL page appears. Click the
Virtual Tape Libraries arrow .
3 Select Move Medium .
4 Click Next .
5 The Move Medium page appears. Click the tab
with the name of the Virtual Tape Cartridge for
which you wish to move medium.
6 Select the Virtual Tape Cartridge element you
wish to move.
7 Select the new place where you want the
Virtual Tape Cartridge element.
8 Click Commit .
9 The Move Medium page appears.
If you wish to move other VTL cartridge elements,
repeat this procedure.
1 Follow Preliminary steps
Manage from the left menu.
2 The Manage VTL page appears. Click the
RAID Groups arrow.
3 Select Add Drives to an existing RAID
Group.
4 Click Next.
5 Select the RAID group associated with the VTL
you wish to add the drives to from the drop
down menu.
6 Click the drives you wish to add to the RAID
group.
CAUTION CAUTION
Adding drives to an existing RAID group
may adversely impact performance. You
cannot reverse this operation unless you
delete the RAID group.
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