Glyph cy-misan-v User Guide

3. Select the “Create virtual tapes…” option.

A window will appear showing the current number of virtual tapes and their disk
space allocation over the total storage capacity.

4. Choose either the 

Basic or Advanced tab to use for creating the virtual tapes.

(See 

“Create Virtual Tapes” on page 41

 for explanations of each tab.)

5. Enter a “Number of virtual tapes.”

6. For the 

Advanced tab, choose to “Use all available space” or “Specify the tape

size,” and then select the free space on the disk to add the tapes to.

7. Click 

Set/Add to allocate the disk space. The “Item” column for the affected

disk(s) will be updated to show how the miSAN-V-Series will allocate the tapes.

8. Once the desired virtual tapes have been added, click the 

Apply changes button

to execute the changes to the tape cache. A confirmation box will appear; click
Yes to continue. A box will appear while the miSAN-V-Series commits the
changes to the disk(s). The “Create virtual tapes” window will close when finished.

Creating Virtual Devices

The miSAN-V-Series can be configured to emulate up to the purchased maximum
number of virtual tape drives, whether standalone or assigned to a virtual stacker,
based on the miSAN-V-Series model.

1. Connect to the miSAN-V-Series using the Web Control Panel in a web browser.

2. Select the “Tools” option from the main menu bar, once the Web Control Panel

has loaded.

3. Select the “Configure virtual devices…” option.

A window will appear showing the current number of virtual devices.

4. Enter the desired number of standalone tape drives.

5. Enter the desired number of stackers.

6. Enter the desired number of tape drives and slots for each stacker.