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Chapter 6 — Configuring and Managing Partitions Partition Configuration Overview
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 Whenusingmultipletapetechnologygenerations,SpectraLogic
stronglyrecommendsconfiguringseparatepartitionsforeach
generation.
 WhenusingbothFibreChannelandSCSIdrivesinthelibrary,the
differentdriveinterfacetypesmustbeinseparatepartitions.
 Ifyouwanttousethecontrollerfailoverfeature(seeControllerFailover
onpage77),thelibrarymustcontaintwoRIMs,twoRIM2s,ortwo
F‐QIPs,onetoprovidetheroboticcontrolpathandthesecondtoactas
thefailoverpartner.
 Slotsassignedtostoragepartition(s)countagainstthelicensedcapacity
ofthelibrary.
Configuring and Using Cleaning Partitions and Auto
Drive Clean
 Cleaningpartitionsdonotcountagainstthepartitionmaximum.
 Acleaningpartitioncanbesharedbymultiplestoragepartitionsas
longasthecleaningcartridgesarecompatiblewiththedrivetypesin
eachstoragepartition.
 CleaningpartitionsusechambersthatarenotlicensedwithaCapacity
OnDemand(CoD)key.Ifallofthechambersarelicensed,acleaning
partitionusesanychambersthatarenotalreadyassignedtoanother
partition.
 Configuringacleaningpartitionandassigningittooneormorestorage
partitionsautomaticallyenablestheAutoDriveCleanfeatureforthose
storagepartitions(seeCreatingaCleaningPartitiononpage187and
AllocateChambersandDrivesonpage197).
Thedrivesinthestoragepartitionswithanassociatedcleaning
partitionarecleanedautomaticallywhenadriveindicatesthatitneeds
cleaning.Inaddition,youcanusetheBlueScaleuserinterfacetoinitiate 
amanualcleaning.See
ManuallyCleaningaDriveonpage465.
 Theoptiontoperformamanualcleaningoperationusingacleaning
cartridgeinacleaningpartitionisonlyavailablefordrivesthatarein
storagepartitionsassociatedwithacleaningpartition.