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Chapter 6—Configuring and Managing Partitions Partition Overview
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Advantages of Multiple Partitions Insomeenvironments,usingmultiple
storagepartitionsiscrucialtodatacenterefficiencyandgrowth.For
example,multiplepartitionsareextremelyusefulinthefollowing
situations:
Situation Advantage of Using Multiple Partitions
Multiple Storage
Management
Software
Applications
Ifgroupswithinyourcompanyusedifferentstoragemanagementsoftware
applications,eachsoftwareapplicationrequiresitsowndedicatedlibrary.
Insteadofmaintainingmultiplephysicallibraries
—oneperstorage
managementsoftwareapplication
—youcanuseasinglelibrarywithmultiple
partitions;eachpartitionappearstothesoftwareasadedicatedlibrary.
Multiple Databases Ifyourcompanyusesmultipledatabases,partitioningthelibrarypreservesthe
backupprocessesassociatedwitheachtypeofdatabase.
Shared Resources Ifeachdepartmentinthecompanymustkeeptheirdatasegregated,creating
multiplepartitionssuppliesthissegregationandensurestheintegrityofeach
dataset.Eachpartitioncanonlyaccessthedrivesandcartridgeslotsassigned
toit.Datafromonepartitioncannotbecomeintermixedwiththedatastoredon
the
cartridgesinanotherpartition.
Multiple Drive
Generations
IfyourdatacenterusesmultiplegenerationsofLTOdrives,SpectraLogic
stronglyrecommendsconfiguringseparatepartitionsforeachgenerationto
ensureread/writecompatibilitybetweenthedrivesandcartridges.
Multiple Drive
Interfaces
Ifyouhavedriveswithdifferentinterfacetypes(forexample,FibreChannel
andSAS)installedinthelibrary,the drivesusingeachinterfacemustbein
separatepartitions.
Encryption Ifyouwanttoencryptsome,butnotallofyourbackupdata,youcancreatean
encryptionpartitionandanon‐encryptionpartitiontosegregatethetwotypes
ofdata.