Hello Nick,

I did not know that barcodes make the layout was any different than using the 
web interface or the front panel.
I thought that both the tape drives and the slots each had to be one sequence 
of drives or slots. And if you wanted to add or subtract, unless the change was 
to the bordering virtual library, you had to move all the intermediate units 
down or up.

But, if you purchase the ALMS feature for the library things become much 
easier. The assignment is done via the web interface and you can assign tape 
drives one by one to any virtual library, in any order.
Slots are not assigned by their physical location, but are just quotas.  The 
library can use any slot for any virtual library. Note ALMS is just a license 
key, the code is already built in.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Nick Laflamme
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:50 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

OK, I get to read about bar code labels and try to make this work for
us. It's nice that it's possible; if not so nice that the granularity on
how slots are assigned is a bit more coarse and that it'll be some work
putting labels and clips into place. Oh, well!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Tom.

Thanks,
Nick

Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> Unless things have changed in a more recent firmware than I'm running
> (always possible) there are three ways to partition a 3584; the web
> interface, the operator panel, and the barcode labels.
>
> The web interface and the front panel both work the same -- how many
> drives, starting with number 1, are in the first library; how many
> drives are in the second; until all drives are assigned to librarys. And
> the same with slots, starting with the first slot and working out.
>
> If you want to have a dis-continuous library, with something like drives
> 1,2,4,and 8 or slots in multiple groups you will need to use the barcode
> labels and magnetic clips that came with the library. IIRC, tape drives
> are individually assignable and slots are assigned by the column.
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
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