Internal Architecture Of The Vls (Vls9000 Shown) - HP StorageWorks 12000 - Virtual Library System EVA Gateway Manual

Figure 43 Internal Architecture of the VLS (VLS9000 Shown)
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This allows any cartridge to be loaded into any virtual tape drive on any node, so the virtual drives
in a library can be on different nodes from the virtual library robot. Therefore, the virtual drives for a
library can be configured across multiple nodes as shown in Figure 44, and as the device is scaled
up (by adding more nodes and arrays) the virtual library can be expanded with it by adding more
drives and more cartridges to the existing virtual library. (This requires the robot to be initially created
with additional spare empty drive bays and empty slots.)
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