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Chapter 6 — Configuring and Managing Partitions Partition Configuration Overview
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User Privilege Requirements Onlyuserswithsuperuseroradministrator
privilegescancreateormodifypartitions.
Configuring and Using Storage Partitions
 Youcanconfigurestoragepartitionseitherbeforeorafteryouconfigure
cleaningpartitions.However,ifyouknowthatyouwanttouseAuto
DriveCleanwithastoragepartition,itiseasiertoconfigurethe
cleaningpartitionbeforeyouconfigurethestoragepartition.Ifyou
choosetocreatethestoragepartitionbeforeyoucreatethecleaning
partition,youneedtomodifythestoragepartitiontoassignthe
cleaningpartitiontoit(therebyenablingAutoDriveCleanforthe
partition).
 Bydefault,thelibraryletsyoucreateasinglestoragepartition.Ifyou
needadditionalstoragepartitions,youmustpurchaseaSharedLibrary
Services(SLS)activationkey.RefertoEnablingBlueScaleSoftware
Support,Options,andUpgradesonpage106forinformationabout
purchasingandenteringactivationkeys.
WithSLS,ifoneormorepartitionsuseaFibreChanneldrivetoprovide
theroboticcontrolpath,youcanconfigureamaximumofsixpartitions
inthelibrary.IfallpartitionsuseaRIMfortheroboticcontrolpath,you
canconfigureamaximumof16partitionsinthelibrary.Libraries
runningBlueScalesoftwareversionsearlierthanBlueScale12.6.3,are
limitedtoeightstoragepartitions.
Notes:  CleaningpartitionsdonotrequireanSLSactivationkeyand
donotcounttowardthepartitionmaximum.
 Themorepartitionsinalibrary,thelongereachmovecan
take.Ifmoverequestscanbesenttoseveralpartitionsat
once,youmayneedtoincreasethetimeoutsettinginyour
storagemanagementsoftware.
 Themaximumnumberofexporterssupportedbythelibraryissix.If
desired,youcanconfiguremultipleexportingcontrollersofsimilar
type(RIMsandF‐QIPs,ordrives)toasinglepartitionanduseyour
hostsoftwaretoexportthesamechangerinterfaceoverthecontrollers
toprovideredundancy.
Notes:  Sixdriveexporterscanbeusedforsixdifferentpartitions,or
multipleexporterscanbeconfiguredinthesamepartition,
reducingthemaximumnumberofpartitions.
 AsingleRIMorF‐QIPcanexportuptoeightpartitions,but
stillonlycountasoneexporter;asingleRIM2canexportup
to16partitions,butstillonlycountasoneexporter.
 Thelibraryrequires,ataminimum,onestoragepartitiontobe
configuredbeforeyoucanusethelibrary.Eachstoragepartitionmust
haveaminimumofonechamberassignedtothestoragepool.Each
storagepartitionmustalsohaveatleastonedriveassignedtoit.