Spectra T200 - Allocate Chambers and Drives

Chapter 6 — Configuring and Managing Partitions Creating a Storage Partition
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EE Chambers Enter the number of chambers to assign to the entry/exit pool for this partition.
Notes:
 Some storage management software features require an entry/exit pool.
Spectra Logic recommends assigning at least one entry/exit chamber.
 It is useful for the entry/exit pool to be larger than the expected import/export
operations you plan to do on a daily or weekly basis.
 The cartridges stored in the entry/exit pool are not accessible to the storage
management software for writing or reading data.
Drives Select the drives to be dedicated to this partition. The check boxes for any
installed drives that cannot be used in the partition are grayed out. Any drive
already selected as a controller is automatically selected and cannot be cleared.
 You cannot use Fibre Channel, SAS, and SCSI drives in the same partition.
 If you enabled Global Spares (see Assign Global Spare Drives on page 193),
you can only select direct-attached Fibre Channel drives of the same
generation as the Global Spare drive assigned to the partition.
 If you plan to mix multiple generations of LTO cartridges in the same
partition, make sure that the drives in the partition are compatible with every
generation of data cartridge in the partition (see LTO Read/Write
Compatibility on page 550 for compatibility information).
Cleaning Partition Select the name of the cleaning partition to be used for the drives in the storage
partition. Associating a cleaning partition with the storage partition enables the
Auto Drive Clean feature for the partition. If you do not want to enable Auto
Drive Clean, select None.
Note: The option to select a cleaning partition is only available if you previously
configured a cleaning partition that uses the same type of media as the storage
partition (see Creating a Cleaning Partition on page 185). If you create a cleaning
partition later, edit the storage partition to associate the cleaning partition with it.
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