Stornext 4.1.3 User's Guide
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User’s Guide StorNext 4.1.3 6-01658-17 Rev A Document Title, 6-01658-17 Rev A, September 2011, Product of USA. Quantum Corporation provides this publication “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Quantum Corporation may revise this publication from time to time without notice. COPYRIGHT STATEMENT Copyright 2011 by Quantum Corporation. All rights reserved. Your right to copy this manual is limited by copyright law. Making copies or adaptations without prior written authorization of Quantum Corporation is prohibited by law and constitutes a punishable violation of the law. TRADEMARK STATEMENT Quantum, the Quantum logo, DLT, DLTtape, the DLTtape logo, Scalar, StorNext, the DLT logo, DXi, GoVault, SDLT, StorageCare, Super DLTtape, and SuperLoader are registered trademarks of Quantum Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Protected by Pending and Issued U.S. and Foreign Patents, including U.S. Patent No. 5,990,810. LTO and Ultrium are trademarks of HP, IBM, and Quantum in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Specifications are subject to change without notice. ii Quantum StorNext User’s Guide Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 About StorNext File System. 1 About StorNext Storage Manager. 2 About Distributed LAN Clients . 2 About Licensing . 3 Purpose of This Guide . 3 How This Guide is Organized. 3 Notes, Cautions, and Warnings . 4 Document Conventions . 5 Chapter 2 StorNext GUI Overview 7 Accessing the StorNext GUI . 7 The StorNext Home Page. 10 StorNext Monitors. 11 StorNext Home Page Dropdown Menus . 14 Chapter 3 The Configuration Wizard 19 High Availability Systems . 20 Step 1: Welcome . 20 Quantum StorNext User’s Guide iii Contents Step 2: Licenses . 21 License Expiration and Limits . 26 Updating Licenses. 28 Licensing and Upgrades . 29 Manually Editing the license.dat File. 30 Step 3: Name Servers. 31 Multiple fsnameserver Hosts . 31 Entering Name Servers . 33 Deleting a Name Server. 34 Step 4: File Systems . 34 Editing a File System and Performing Other Actions . 39 Step 5: Storage Destinations . 40 Adding a New Library . 40 Viewing an Existing Library . 42 Editing a Library . 44 Deleting a Library . 45 Performing Other Library Actions . 45 Storage Disk Overview . 46 Adding a New Storage Disk . 47 Viewing an Existing Storage Disks. 48 Editing a Storage Disk. 49 Deleting a Storage Disk. 50 Adding a New Data Replication Host . 50 Editing a Data Replication Host. 51 Deleting a Data Replication Target . 52 Adding a New Mount Point . 52 Enabling Data Deduplication . 53 Step 6: Storage Policies . 54 Adding a Storage Manager Storage Policy . 55 Adding a Replication Storage Policy . 61 Viewing a Storage Policy. 61 Running a Storage Policy . 62 Editing a Storage Policy . 62 Deleting a Storage Policy . 63 Step 7: Email Server. 63 Adding an Email Server. 64 Step 8: Email Notification . 64 Adding an Email Recipient . 65 Viewing Email Recipient Information . 66 Editing an Email Recipient . 67 iv Quantum StorNext User’s Guide Contents Deleting an Email Recipient . 67 Step 9: Done . 68 Chapter 4 File System Tasks 69 Label Disks. 70 Labeling a Device . 70 Unlabeling a Device . 72 Check File System . 72 Viewing and Deleting a Check Report. 74 File System Check Output Files . 74 Affinities . 75 Allocation Strategy . 75 Example Use Cases . 76 Adding a New Affinity . 77 Deleting an Affinity. 78 Migrate Data . 79 Truncation Parameters. 80 Chapter 5 Storage Manager Tasks 83 Storage Components. 84 Setting Devices Online and Offline . 85 Additional Options for Tape Drives . 85 Drive Pools. 85 Viewing Drive Pool Information . 86 Adding a Drive Pool . 87 Editing a Drive Pool. 88 Deleting a Drive Pool. 88 Media Actions . 89 Viewing Media Information . 89 Filtering Media . 90 Performing Media Actions . 90 Storage Exclusions. 98 Accessing Storage Exclusions . 98 Adding an Exclusion Pattern . 99 Truncation Exclusions . 101 Quantum StorNext User’s Guide v Contents Accessing Truncation Exclusions . 102 Adding an Exclusion Pattern . 103 Tape Consolidation . 105 Setting Tape Consolidation Parameters. 106 Scheduling Tape Cleaning and Defragmentation . 108 Library Operator Interface . 108 Software Requests. 110 Scheduler . 111 Viewing a Schedule. 112 Adding a Schedule . 112 Editing an Existing Schedule . 114 Deleting an Existing Schedule . 114 Alternate Retrieval Location. ..