Chapter 1 — Library Overview Library Expansion and Upgrades
December 2019 User Guide—Spectra T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
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LIBRARY EXPANSION AND UPGRADES
The library is designed to transform and expand to meet a data center’s
changing storage requirements, as well as to achieve storage consolidation
goals. See Appendix B – Media & Upgrades, beginning on page 522 for
additional information.
Capacity on Demand (CoD)
The library's capacity-on-demand feature (CoD) lets you purchase a library
that suits your current needs and then purchase additional capacity later as
required. CoD reduces up-front costs, because you only pay for what you
currently need. As more capacity is required, it can be added in increments
by purchasing activation keys to license additional chambers in the library.
You can then import additional TeraPack magazines to fill the licensed
chambers.
Modular Expansion
The modular design makes it possible to increase media storage capacity
or number of drives in the library to meet storage and performance needs
as they evolve within an organization. See Overview on page 24 for more
information.
DISCONTINUED COMPONENTS
The following components are no longer available for purchase and are not
described in this user guide. If your library includes these components,
refer to the documentation that accompanied your library when you
received it for information about using these components when you
configure partitions.
QIPs (both F-QIPs and E-QIPs) were replaced by a Fibre Channel
Robotics Interface Module (RIM) and are no longer available for
purchase. If your library does not already use QIPs, you must use a
RIM or drive to provide the robotic control path.
SCSI drives (LTO-2 and LTO-3 drives) are no longer available for
purchase.
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