Dell PowerVault ML6010 - Taking a Library Online; Taking a Library Offline; Cabling the Library

Installing, Removing, and Replacing
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Taking a Library Online
To take an entire library online, take all of its partitions online.
1 Using the library's operator panel, select Operations > Change Partition Mode; or, using the Web client, select
Operations > Partitions > Change Mode.
2 For each partition that you want to take online, click Online.
3 Click Apply.
Taking a Library Offline
To take an entire library offline, take all of its partitions offline.
1 Using the library's operator panel, select Operations > Change Partition Mode; or, using the Web client, select
Operations > Partitions > Change Mode.
2 For each partition that you want to take offline, click Offline.
3 Click Apply.
Cabling the Library
Use the following cabling procedure appropriate for your drive type.
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Specific Instructions for LTO-5 Tape Drives
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Connecting Library SCSI Cables to Hosts
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Connecting Library FC Cables Directly to Host
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Connecting Library FC Cables to FC I/O Blades
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Recommended Library Cabling for FC I/O Blades
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Connecting Library SAS Cables Directly to Host
Specific Instructions for LTO-5 Tape Drives
Currently, the library does not support using the following features on LTO-5 tape drives:
• Ethernet port
• Port 2 on dual-port tape drives
See
Figure 1 and Figure 2 for details.
Caution: LTO-5 Fibre Channel tape drives can be configured for speeds of up to 8 Gb/s. If they are configured for 8
Gb/s, you should connect them directly to a host and not to an FC I/O blade, because the FC I/O blade only allows
speeds up to 4 Gb/s. If you connect an LTO-5 Fibre Channel tape drive to an FC I/O blade, you must configure the tape
drive speed to 4 Gb/s or less (see
Setting Tape Drive Parameters).
Figure 1 IBM LTO-5 Single Port Fibre Channel Tape Drive