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Fujitsu Siemens Computers pmn User Manual

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U41117-J-Z125-7-76
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
1.1 Objective and target group for the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2 Concept of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.3 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.4 Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2 CentricStor - Virtual Tape Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.1 The CentricStor principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2 Hardware architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.2.1 ISP (Integrated Service Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2.1.1 VLP (Virtual Library Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2.1.2 ICP (Integrated Channel Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.2.1.3 IDP (Integrated Device Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.2.1.4 ICP_IDP or IUP (Integrated Universal Processor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.2.2 RAID systems for the Tape Volume Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.2.3 FibreChannel (FC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
2.2.4 FC switch (fibre channel switch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2.5 Host connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
2.3 Software architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.4 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5 Administering the tape cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5.1 Writing the tape cartridges according to the stacked volume principle . . . . . . . . . 35
2.5.2 Repeated writing of a logical volume onto tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.5.3 Creating a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
2.5.4 Reorganization of the tape cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Fujitsu Siemens Computers pmn Specifications

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BrandFujitsu Siemens Computers
Modelpmn
CategorySoftware
LanguageEnglish