Integrated VTL

Under Select a VTL is a list of VTLs available. Highlight a VTL to display its properties. You can add your own VTLs, and change or delete them as you need.

Properties

Name
The name given to this VTL.
Owner
The login name of the person who created this VTL.
Media server
The media server on which the VTL is located.
Path
The filepath to the VTL. A VTL occupies a directory on the media server and only one VTL is allowed per directory.
Capacity (MB)
The size in MB of the VTL. The combined size of this, and any other VTLs, must not be greater than the size allowed by your license.
Space used (MB)
Displays how much space in the VTL is currently occupied by backup data sets.

Advanced properties

Parallelism
The maximum number of processes allowed to read or write data at the same time, from or to the VTL. Your license determines the maximum number of drives. and so the maximum number of parallel data flows possible. For example, if the main license allows 2 drives, and parallelism is set to 3, a job that writes to disk can use at most two data flows simultaneously.
Automatic disk-to-tape
This feature enables the automatic migration of data from the VTL disk to tape, which will be triggered by criteria you select:
The first two criteria will trigger the automatic movement of backup data sets from the VTL to tape storage when the storage space occupied or left in the VTL reaches the specified level. The last criterion will move the data from the VTL to tape at a given date and time.

Add a new VTL

Click on Add a new VTL in the actions menu, and enter the properties to create a new VTL.

To activate Automatic disk-to-tape in a new VTL, after it is created, highlight the VTL in the Select a VTL list and click on Modify... in the actions menu.

Modify...

Click on the name of the VTL you want to modify in the Select a VTL list, then click on Modify in the actions menu. Some VTL's properties can be changed here, particularly the Automatic disk-to-tape configuration.

Automatic disk-to-tape

Before automatic disk-to-tape can be activated, there must be a disk-to-tape setup available on the backup server. To create a new setup, in the navigation tree at the left click on Where to backup > Disk-to-Tape > Disk-to-Tape setup, then click on Add Disk-to-tape setup in the actions menu.

To activate automatic disk-to-tape for a VTL, click on Modify... then select Yes in the Automatic Disk-to-Tape: field.

Disk-To-Tape setup
Select a setup from the drop list. Only setups saved on the same media server as the VTL will be displayed.
Used space...
VTL data storage space occupied by current backup data sets.
Remaining space...
VTL data storage space NOT occupied by current backup data sets.
If the condition above occurs, then migrate:
Select which backup data set on the VTL should be transferred:
oldest
the backup data set with the earliest launch data.
next to expire
the backup data set with the next validity date.
delete
will remove the compliant backup data set(s) from the VTL to reduce the space used to the amount or percentage in the next field.
do not delete
will leave the compliant backup data set(s) on the VTL unless the space used is more than the amount or percentage in the next field.

Remove...

This deletes the highlighted VTL.

Backup list for...

Display a table of backup data sets currently stored in the highlighted VTL.

Backup type
Can be:
Savepack
The Savepack contained in this backup data set.
Size
The size (in MB) of this backup data set.
Backup date
The date and time at which the backup job was started.
Retention date
After this date, Arkeia may overwrite the highlighted backup data set.

Recycle space

The backup data set highlighted in the table will be recycled when this item in the actions menu is clicked. It will be removed from the list of backup data sets stored in this VTL, and space it occupies can be overwritten with a new backup data set.