HP StoreOnce VSA Backup System User Guide (TC458-96025)

Table 8 Cartridge tab parameters
DescriptionField
Identifies each element of the library available to hold a cartridge. The types of elements
are:
Location
• Mail slot: a dedicated slot used to hold a cartridge that is ready for exporting to or
importing from physical tape. The Mail slot is not used with HP StoreOnce models.
• Tape drive: populated when there is activity on a cartridge. You can move a cartridge
into a tape drive by using the Move Cartridge drop-down menu in Edit mode.
• Slot n: one of the standard library slots.
A barcode is an 8– or 6–digit, alphanumeric, unique identifier for a cartridge within the HP
StoreOnce Backup system. Barcodes are shared with the backup application upon request.
Barcode
The backup application can choose to assign its own internal identifier to the cartridge but,
if it does so, the backup application cannot assign this identifier to the Cartridge barcode.
Barcodes are generated automatically but may be edited by the user. When editing the
barcode:
• It must be unique and must not start with the letters “CLN” or “DG” because these are
reserved designations for cleaning and diagnostic cartridges.
• It should be a minimum of 6 characters. Valid ASCII characters are A-Z, a-z, 0–9.
Barcodes are always displayed as 8 characters with letters in capitals on the StoreOnce
GUI and CLI (padded with space characters) regardless of the size selected. However,
if the Number of Barcode Characters is set to 6, only the rightmost 6 characters will be
visible to the backup software, i.e. barcode 1ABCDEFG will truncate to BCDEFG.
(Truncated barcode characters are shown in brackets in the Cartridges tab.)
Check box indicates whether the slot is included in a replication mapping configuration. It
cannot be edited from this page.
Mapped Slot
The actual used capacity in MB or GB.Used Size
Defaults to the appropriate capacity for the drive emulation type selected on the Devices
tab. This value may be changed if the Used Size is Blank, see below. The maximum value
allowed is 3200 GB.
Max Size
Check box that enables (checked) and disables (unchecked) write protection, see “Write
protect a cartridge” (page 26).
Write Protected
Identifies when the cartridge was last written to and is useful when identifying data for
copying or exporting.
Last Written
NOTE: Additional columns appear when function buttons are selected below, such as Create,
Move, and Delete.
24 VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries) functions