Adding Tape Library and Tape Drives to the Enterprise

The following steps are required if you set up your tape library by using Manual Setup (Process B):

1. Add the tape library to your Enterprise. Use the Adding a Tape Library function in the management console. You need to supply information about the controller node. Follow the instructions in Adding a Tape Library.

2. Assign the tape drives to the tape library.

Note. Although the media changer controller node must be running one of the operating systems specified in Chapter 31: Introduction to Tape Library Setup, tape drives can be attached to any device server (client node) or NDMP node in your Enterprise, either directly or via a SAN. Tape library tape drives do not need to connect to the same node as their media changer (the controller node).

To add the tape drives, use the Adding a Tape Library Device function in the management console. Follow the instructions in Adding a Tape Library Device.

You need to supply information about the Device ID of the tape drive and the Device Number of the drive bay. See the following section for a discussion about Device ID and Device Number mappings.