Connecting A Destination Library; Supported Destination Library Configurations; Connecting A Destination Library To The Vls12000 Gateway; Managing And Unmanaging A Destination Library - HP StorageWorks 12000 User Manual

5. Transfer the physical tapes to the remote site
6. Import data from the tapes onto the remote LAN/WAN replication target
Once the tape initialization process is complete, the automatic migration of deduplicated data from
the source site to the target site over the LAN/WAN begins. See
for Tape Initialization" on page 78 and
Initialization" on page 79 for the specific procedures.

Connecting a Destination Library

Automigration requires one or more dedicated destination libraries to be connected to the VLS device.

Supported Destination Library Configurations

Automigration is supported on:
• HP MSL series tape libraries
• HP EML series tape libraries or library partitions
• HP ESL E-series tape libraries or library partitions
• HP VLS virtual libraries
Using automigration, you can share a single destination library across multiple virtual libraries
(maximum of 20 drives on the physical libraries), or configure multiple destination libraries to be used
in a single virtual library.
CAUTION:
Automigration only supports destination libraries that have homogeneous drive types; for example,
all drives are LTO-2. A mixture of drive types in the destination library, such as LTO-3 and LTO-2, is
not supported.
NOTE:
Automigration allows you to use a VLS as a destination library. Because of this feature, it can also
be used as a device-to-device local replication scheme.

Connecting a Destination Library to the VLS12000 Gateway

To connect the destination library to a Gateway device:
1. Connect your destination library to the VLS Gateway by connecting the library into the existing
SAN zone that contains the arrays for this device.
2. Reboot the VLS. Upon reboot, the device detects the newly connected destination library.

Managing and Unmanaging a Destination Library

To manage a library is to enable automigration by connecting the source library to a destination
library that is already on the VLS. Until you manage the destination library, it cannot communicate
with the source. The process for managing destination libraries is different for SAN libraries than for
"Importing Data from Physical Tapes for Tape
HP StorageWorks 12000 Gateway Virtual Library System User Guide
"Exporting Data to Physical tapes
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