Installation Configuration And Licensing; Adding The Drive Expansion License; How Licenses Are Allocated - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User's Manual & Technical Reference

Tape libraries automate tape media handling which, in conjunction with the Data Protector Express
backup schedules, allows hands-off backup operations. A tape library contains one or more of the
following elements: tape drives, storage slots for tape media, import/export slots to add or remove media
from the library, robotic mechanisms to move tape media between the slots and tape drives.
Data Protector Express support for tape libraries allows you to automate and consolidate backup in
network environments and manage media efficiently. Data Protector Express has a number of predefined
media rotation schemes, which you can easily adjust or add to in order to meet the requirements of your
company's data protection needs. Data Protector Express tape library support includes managing
media using barcodes, using the on-board memory in some tape cartridges, such as Ultrium Memory in
Cartridge, and user-configurable tape media load ports (mail slots).
Support for one or more single-drive tape libraries is a standard feature of Data Protector Express.
Additional licensing is needed for additional tape drives added to the library.
NOTE:
Always manage your tape media from the Data Protector Express interface. Your tape library may provide
a front panel that allows you to carry out various media management tasks but if you use this for media
operations the Data Protector Express catalog will not have the up-to-date media location information.
For this reason, front panel media operations will require time-consuming inventory processes to update
the catalog.
Installation Configuration and Licensing
If the tape library is installed correctly, Data Protector Express will automatically detect the tape library.
When detected the tape library is added as an available device to the Data Protector Express catalog.
Each machine that has a tape library attached to it requires a Data Protector Express Media Server
license. The Data Protector Express Backup Server includes the Data Protector Express Media Server
capability. Multiple tape libraries can be connected to the Data Protector Express Backup Server and the
Data Protector Express Media Servers. The first drive in any tape library is automatically licensed for use.
A Data Protector Express Drive Expansion license must be purchased for each additional drive added
to the tape library. Up to twelve Data Protector Express Drive Expansion licenses can be installed per
Data Protector Express Storage Domain.
If Data Protector Express is installed in evaluation mode, you will be able to use all drives in the tape
library for the 60-day duration of the evaluation license. At the end of the evaluation period only the first
drive in each tape library will remain usable. All additional drives are marked as offline and cannot be
used until a Data Protector Express Drive Expansion license is added.

Adding the Drive Expansion License

This is the same process as for all option licenses. When you purchase options, they are enabled by
entering an additional license key, which is added to the existing base license key.
1.
Run Data Protector Express and select Licenses from the Help drop-down menu.
2. In the Commands pane, select the New command. A New License window is opened.
3. Enter the license key and click OK.
4.
The new option license key will be added to the list of licenses and the functionality enabled.

How licenses are allocated

Any licenses in Data Protector Express are assigned on a 'first come, first served' basis; whichever library
drives are registered first in the catalog will receive a license (reducing the license count by one) to the
maximum allowable in the base license definition. If there are more drives than licenses, unlicensed drives
are marked offline (and are unusable).
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