Release Note для Spectra Logic spectra t120
User Guide Updates — BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management
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Release Notes
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The library also tracks the number of uses for MLM-cleaning cartridges
and alerts you when a cleaning cartridge is nearing the end of its useful
life. With MLM-capable cleaning cartridges, usage information is
retained even when the cleaning cartridge is exported from the library.
With non-MLM cleaning cartridges, the library’s record of whether a
cleaning cartridge is good or expired is lost when the cartridge is
exported from the library.
and alerts you when a cleaning cartridge is nearing the end of its useful
life. With MLM-capable cleaning cartridges, usage information is
retained even when the cleaning cartridge is exported from the library.
With non-MLM cleaning cartridges, the library’s record of whether a
cleaning cartridge is good or expired is lost when the cartridge is
exported from the library.
Always operate the library with Media Lifecycle Management
enabled. If you disable and then re-enable Media Lifecycle
Management, any loads, reads, writes, errors, and any other tape
related events that occur while MLM is disabled are not recorded in the
MLM database.
Management, any loads, reads, writes, errors, and any other tape
related events that occur while MLM is disabled are not recorded in the
MLM database.
Regularly back up your MLM database. Determine how frequently to
export the MLM database to a USB key for storage. The database can be
loaded back into the library from the USB key in the event of an error.
See
loaded back into the library from the USB key in the event of an error.
See
for detailed information.
Note:
Backing up the MLM database produces a point-in-time
snapshot of the MLM database. Based on the number of tapes
you routinely import into and export from the library, determine
how frequently backups are needed to ensure that you can easily
restore the MLM database.
snapshot of the MLM database. Based on the number of tapes
you routinely import into and export from the library, determine
how frequently backups are needed to ensure that you can easily
restore the MLM database.
Using Media Lifecycle Management
After you enable Media Lifecycle Management (see
Logic Certified MLM media and cleaning cartridges into the library,
BlueScale MLM writes the cartridge bar code information and other
information about the library to the cartridge’s memory chip and to the
library’s MLM database the first time the cartridge is loaded and then
unloaded from a drive. You can then use BlueScale MLM to monitor the
health of the cartridges and generate a variety reports. If desired, you can
save the reports to a USB key or email them to a previously configured
mail user.
BlueScale MLM writes the cartridge bar code information and other
information about the library to the cartridge’s memory chip and to the
library’s MLM database the first time the cartridge is loaded and then
unloaded from a drive. You can then use BlueScale MLM to monitor the
health of the cartridges and generate a variety reports. If desired, you can
save the reports to a USB key or email them to a previously configured
mail user.
Note:
Until a cartridge is loaded into a tape drive in the library the first
time, it does not appear on the Media Lifecycle Management
reports.
time, it does not appear on the Media Lifecycle Management
reports.
If a new cartridge is write-protected when it is inserted into a
drive, the library cannot update the information on the
cartridge’s memory chip.
drive, the library cannot update the information on the
cartridge’s memory chip.