HP 9000 Virtual Library System - Manual (Page 127)

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Moving a target cartridge from its existing library to a different library or to the firesafe, or to
a different slot that is not part of the echo copy pool, does not move the source cartridge.
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Moving a target cartridge from its existing library to a different library, or to a new slot in the
same library within a new echo copy pool, results in the source cartridge disappearing from
the echo copy pool but not moving from its existing library.
To move cartridges, from Command View VLS:
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Click the System tab.
2. Select Cartridges in the navigation tree. The cartridges details window opens.
3. Select the number of cartridges to display from the menu beside the category of cartridges
you wish to move. The options are 10, 50, 100 (default), 500, or 1024 cartridges.
4. Click View beside the category. The cartridges parameters window opens.
5. Select the Select box next to each cartridge that you want to delete, or use Select All to delete
all the cartridges listed.
6. Select the destination from the Move Selected To menu.
7. Click Go to the right of the Move Selected To menu.
NOTE: If you have moved a large number of cartridges, allow approximately 20–30 minutes
for the VLS system to fully free up the resources from the move before making changes based on
the move.
Deleting Cartridges
You can delete one or more cartridges at a time from the VLS. The delete cartridge operation
removes the specified cartridges from the VLS, freeing the storage space previously consumed by
those cartridges for new data. For more security, you can use the licensed Secure Erasure feature.
Secure Erasure provides guaranteed erasure of information on virtual tape cartridges. (You must
purchase a separate license for this feature.) You can schedule all or selected cartridges for a total
data overwrite to ensure that no data can be retrieved. The erasure procedure conforms to NIST
guidelines as required in many regulated industries and government agencies that mandate that
data must be destroyed after a certain period of time. This erasure is comparable to tape shredding
of physical tapes.
CAUTION: If you want to keep data that is currently on a cartridge that you are going to delete,
copy the data to another cartridge using a backup application before performing this task.
NOTE: You cannot delete a cartridge that is currently being accessed by a backup application.
Cancel all replication and deduplication jobs associated with this cartridge first.
You may delete replication cartridges on either the source or the target VLS with the following
results:
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Deleting a source cartridge results in the mirror copy pool on the target VLS moving to the
Mirror Broken state.
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Deleting a target cartridge results in the cartridge disappearing from the mirror copy pool on
the source VLS.
To delete cartridges, from Command View VLS:
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