Quantum Scalar i6000 User manual

User’s Guide

Scalar i6000

6-66879-07 Rev A

ii Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide

Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide, 6-66879-07 Rev A, May 2013, Product of USA.

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Preserving the World's Most Important Data. Yours., Backup. Recovery. Archive. It’s What We Do., the

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sized. Well-armored, SDLT, SiteCare, SmartVerify, StorageCare, Super DLTtape, and Vision are trademarks

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Specifications are subject to change without notice.

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Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Description 1

Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Hardware Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Dual Robotics Configurations and Parking Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Control Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Expansion Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Library Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

I/O Management Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Import/Export Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Cartridge Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Tape Drives and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Mixed Media Support and Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Support for WORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Operator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Power System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Library Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 2 Troubleshooting Your Library 37

How Does the Library Report Issues?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Working With Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Interpreting LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Working With Command History Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Accessing Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chapter 3 Configuring Your Library 117

Running the Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Enabling Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Working With Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Configuring Control Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Setting Up the Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Managing Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Setting Up Policies for the Physical Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Specifying the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Configuring E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Setting Up E-mail Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Setting Up Media Security Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Configuring Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Configuring Drive SCSI ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Configuring Fibre Channel Drive Speed, Topology, and Loop ID . . . . 197

Configuring Fibre Channel I/O Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Generating the Library Configuration Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

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Configuring Drive Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Registering SNMP Traps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Configuring Library Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Using LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Configuring Screen Saver Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Working With Data Path Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

About the Configuration Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Setting Aisle Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Configuring a Webcam For Your Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Working with Towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Chapter 4 Active Vault 251

About Active Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Configuring Active Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Chapter 5 Advanced Reporting 259

Media Usage Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Viewing Cross-Partition Media Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Chapter 6 Automated Media Pool 265

Requirements for Automated Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Configuring Automated Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Using Automated Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Chapter 7 Capacity on Demand 277

Chapter 8 Encryption Key Management 279

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Encryption Key Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

KMIP-compliant Encryption Key Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

FIPS-Certified Encryption Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Setting up EKM on the Scalar i6000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using EKM Path Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Monitoring EKM Server Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Using Q-EKM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Using SKM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Chapter 9 Extended Data Lifecycle Management 319

About EDLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Configuring EDLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Running Manual EDLM Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Viewing EDLM Test Sessions and Report Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Diagnosing a Suspect EDLM Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Chapter 10 Storage Networking 349

Using the Storage Networking Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Licensing Drives for Storage Networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Configuring Control Path Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Configuring Data Path Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Configuring Host Access to Storage Networking Drives and Partitions . .

362

Chapter 11 Configuring Access to StorNext 397

Chapter 12 Partition Utilization Reporting 405

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Chapter 13 Running Your Library 411

Logging On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Connecting to Multiple Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Operator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Library Management Console (LMC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Understanding Location Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Viewing the Library (Physical or Partition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Changing the Library’s State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Working With Local User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Shutting Down/Rebooting the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Powering Off the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Powering On the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Locking/Unlocking the I/E Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

When Robotics Are Not Ready. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Using the Library Access Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Chapter 14 Using the Command Line Interface 473

Logging on to the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Command Line Interface (CLI) Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Chapter 15 Maintaining Your Library 491

Monitoring the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Maintenance Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Using Sift Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Retrieving MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Maintaining Air Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658

Performing Robot and Power Rail Health Checks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

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Chapter 16 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes 663

Handling Cartridges Properly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Write-Protecting Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Barcode Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Installing Barcode Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Using Cleaning Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Managing and Moving Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

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Preface

This guide contains information and instructions necessary for the

normal operation and management of the Scalar®i6000 library. This

guide is intended for system administrators, operators, or anyone

interested in learning about or using the Scalar i6000 library after its

initial installation and configuration. Be aware that you must have

administrator privileges to use many of the features that this guide

describes.

Caution: Be sure to read all operating instructions in this manual

and in the

System, Safety, and Regulatory Information

Guide

before operating this product.

Product Safety Statements

This product is designed for data storage and retrieval using magnetic

tape. Any other application is not considered the intended use.

Quantum will not be held liable for damage arising from unauthorized

use of the product. The user assumes all risk in this aspect.

This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and

regulatory requirements. Be aware that improper use may result in

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bodily injury, damage to the equipment, or interference with other

equipment.

Caution: Be sure to read all operating instructions in this manual

and in the

System, Safety, and Regulatory Information

Guide

before operating this product.

WARNING: Before powering on or using this equipment, read THE

System, Safety, and Regulatory Information Guide

. Keep

the Guide for future reference.

Note: When drive sled positions are empty, drive cover plates must be

installed and in place at all times to prevent access into the

empty drive sled Positions.

Mechanical Locks The access and service doors can only be opened with a key. The key

should be kept by an authorized person at your company. Access to the

interior of the library is both a data-integrity and safety issue.

Power Button on the

Library’s Indicator Panel

Switching off the Power button on the indicator panel, located on the

front of the library, removes power from the electronics, which causes

the picker to stop immediately. This button also removes power from

the drives.

WARNING: This power button functions as a power interrupt only. To

completely remove all power before servicing or in an

emergency, turn off the circuit breaker on the power

distribution unit, and then disconnect the power cord

from the electrical source.

Mercury Statement Projectors, LCD displays, and some multifunction printers may

use lamp(s) that contain a small amount of mercury for

energy-efficient lighting purposes. Mercury lamps in these

products are labeled accordingly. Please manage the lamp

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