This document addresses the needs of system administrators, storage and network administrators, and service engineers who are tasked with installing and configuring file systems and archiving solutions using Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager (formerly StorageTek Storage Archive Manager) and Oracle StorageTek QFS Software.
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This document assumes that you are already familiar with the administration of Oracle Solaris operating systems, disk and tape storage systems, and both local and storage area networks. Please refer to the Solaris documentation and man pages and to storage hardware documentation for information on relevant tasks, commands, and procedures.
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[ - ] (brackets surrounding values separated by a hyphen) delimit value ranges.
[ ] (brackets) in command syntax descriptions indicate optional parameters.
root@solaris-host:~# represents a Solaris command shell prompt.
[root@linux-host ~]# represents a Linux command shell prompt.
The Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager and StorageTek QFS Software Installation and Configuration Guide is part of the multivolume Oracle HSM Customer Documentation Library, available from docs.oracle.com/en/storage.
Additional, supporting documentation can be found at the following online locations:
the Oracle HSM wiki:
https://community.oracle.com/community/server_%26_storage_systems/systems-io/oracle-tape-storage/oracle_HSM
the Oracle HSM forum on the My Oracle Support Community:
https://community.oracle.com/community/support/oracle_sun_technologies/sam_qfs_storage_archive_manager_and_sun_qfs
The above resources provide important product alerts and support information. Oracle recommends that you subscribe to the corresponding news feeds so that you receive notice when new information becomes available.
Documentation for the Oracle Solaris operating system, the Solaris Cluster software, and Solaris Cluster Data Services (HA-NFS, HA-SAMBA, etc.) is available at http://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/.