Installation Manual

10 Introduction and preparation basics
working FSE environment. User data from local HSM file systems is recorded on disk media or tape media
in the attached tape library.
Figure 1 Consolidated FSE implementation
Distributed implementation
A distributed implementation consists of a central FSE server with disk media and/or SCSI tape library
attached and one or more external FSE clients that are connected to the server. External FSE clients can run
on different operating systems.
An FSE server is similar to the consolidated implementation with all major services running on it, but it does
not host any HSM file system; all HSM file systems in such an environment reside on FSE clients - the
machines that only run the essential processes for local HSM file system management and utilize major