Aspects Common to Both SL8500 and SL3000 Partitioning

Partitioning the SL8500 or SL3000 library provides the following capabilities:

• ACSLS can manage open systems drives and cartridges, and HSC can manage mainframe drives and cartridges sharing the library.

• More than one instance of ACSLS can access the library.

• One instance of ACSLS can manage multiple partitions in the same library.

• Provides protection and isolation of data cartridges in separate partitions.

• A higher level of data organization.

• An increase in user efficiency.

  Caution:

  • You must audit a partitioned library after it is configured or reconfigured to ACSLS. The library reports the potential cell locations that are not accessible to ACSLS when ACSLS audits it. Inaccessible cell locations include: locations where CAPs, drives, and operator panels are installed; cell locations that the robots cannot access; cell locations that are not activated; and cell locations that are not in this partition.
  • If cells are reassigned from one partition to another, the cartridges in those cells will be orphaned, and will no longer be accessible by the partition that they were in before. The host managing the other partition could write over the data on the cartridges.

  Note:

  Although the SL500 can be partitioned, ACSLS does not support partitioned SL500s.