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Deleting Cartridges, from Command View VLS

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NOTE: You cannot destroy a tape drive that is currently being used by a backup application. To destroy a tape drive, from Command View VLS: 1. Click the System tab. 2. Select the tape drive in the navigation tree. The tape drive details window opens. 3. Click Destroy Tape Drive in the task bar. 4. Click Yes to confirm. 5. Click Finish. 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. 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: • Deleting a source cartridge results in the mirror copy pool on the target VLS moving to the Mirror Broken state. • 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: 1. 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 delete. 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. Click Go to the right of Delete Selected. 138 Configuration

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NOTE:
You cannot destroy a tape drive that is currently being used by a backup application.
To destroy a tape drive, from Command View VLS:
1.
Click the
System
tab.
2.
Select the tape drive in the navigation tree.
The tape drive details window opens.
3.
Click
Destroy Tape Drive
in the task bar.
4.
Click
Yes
to confirm.
5.
Click
Finish
.
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.
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:
•
Deleting a source cartridge results in the mirror copy pool on the target VLS moving to the Mirror
Broken state.
•
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:
1.
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 delete. 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.
Click
Go
to the right of Delete Selected.
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