1 Introduction

Welcome!

Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager Graphical User Interface (VSM GUI) provides a Web-based interface to Virtual Tape Control Software (VTCS) management and reporting commands for the StorageTek VSM library products.

Packaged as a virtual machine to run in a VMware environment on your site's VM server, VSM GUI communicates with SMC at the mainframe host systems to gather, display, and report VSM-related data, and also to issue command requests directly to the Enterprise Library System (ELS) software.

The VSM GUI user interface provides context-sensitive displays that support intuitive access to VTCS commands. Graphical and tabular reports are provided, with dynamic tabbing used to display additional information that is specific to selected objects.