H Library Partitioning

The SL8500 and SL3000 support partitioning of their libraries.

One ACSLS server can manage multiple partitions in the same library.

• SL8500 partitioning

  • SL8500 Complex Partitioning

    The SL8500 8.3 and later firmware supports partitioning across a library complex. Up to 16 partitions can be created in a library complex of SL8500s connected by pass-thru ports.

    ACSLS 8.3 and later releases support up to 16 partitions. ACSLS 8.2 and earlier releases support up to 8 partitions.

  • Enhanced SL8500 Partitioning (available with the SL8500 7.0x firmware)

    • With Enhanced SL8500 partitioning, only a single stand-alone SL8500 can be partitioned.

    • Enhanced SL8500 partitioning can support up to eight physical partitions.

    • Enhanced SL8500 partitioning is at the drive and cell array level.

  • Legacy SL8500 Partitioning

    • With Legacy SL8500 partitioning, only a single stand-alone SL8500 can be partitioned.

    • Legacy SL8500 partitioning can support up to four physical partitions.

    • Legacy SL8500 partitioning is at the rail (LSM) level, and a rail includes all licensed tape drives and cartridges on the rail.

    • A legacy SL8500 partition can include from one to four rails. The rails in a legacy SL8500 partition must be contiguous. For example, a partition can include rails 2, 3 and 4, but a partition cannot be just rails 2 and 4.

For more information on partitioning, refer to the SL8500 documentation set.

• SL3000 partitioning

  • The SL3000 can support up to eight physical partitions.

  • The SL3000 can partition down to the drive and cell level.

For more information, refer to the SL3000 User's Guide.