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600338-B
VolServ software
VolServ software handles volume manipulation by class of
data and media migration. The Volserv software provides the
following features:
• Provides a robotic independent interface to a variety of
robotic systems
• Determines on-line or stored media volume location
• Issues manual or robotic commands to retrieve and
mount media
• Allows multiple clients to share a single media library
• User defined classes of media share a media library
• Supports multiple media types
• Pools drives to allow drives to be shared among clients
• User defined migration policy allows media to be
migrated between on-line and off-line storage
Once a media volume is mounted, the files are accessible
across the centralized or distributed environments through:
• Ethernet
•FDDI
• HYPERchannel
• UltraNet
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Requirements to support VolServ software are platform
dependent. Additional detailed information is provided in
the part number
600308-01 VolServ Documentation Set (for SGI)
and the part number
600308-02 VolServ Documentation Set (for
SUN)
manuals.
DAS software
The distributed AML Server (DAS) is a software product with
both client and server components. The server software
modules support the OS/2 operating system platform and the
client software modules support UNIX/AIX operating
system platforms. They communicate from the UNIX/AIX
clients to the OS/2 DAS server (AMU controller PC) across a
TCP/IP connected network.
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