Quantum DXi-Series Command Line Interface (CLI) Guide
6-67081-05 Rev B
April 2012
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Contents
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VTL Configuration CLI Commands
Listing Existing VTL and Its Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Listing Available Library Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Listing of Supported Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Adding a VTL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Editing a VTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Deleting a VTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Listing the Media Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Creating Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Listing the Media and Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Media Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Deleting All Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Turning a VTL Online/Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Listing Available Hosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Adding a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Editing a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Deleting a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Listing Targets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Listing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Listing the SAN Client Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Adding a SAN Clients Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Deleting a SAN Client Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Listing VTL Storage Locations and Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Moving Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Unloading Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Resetting the VTL Target Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
NAS Configuration CLI Commands
Listing the Existing NAS Share and Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
