User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Online Archiving with AMASS 1
- Accessing the Storage Network 2
- Technical Support 3
- Preface
- Online Archiving with AMASS
- Accessing the Storage Network
- Technical Support
- Glossary
- AMASS®
- API
- appended files
- archive
- backup
- bar code
- BFS
- bitfile
- bitfile ID
- cache
- cleaning group
- client
- DAS™
- DataClass group
- DataMgr™
- dead space
- DLT™
- DMFS
- drive pool
- drives
- Ethernet
- FCB
- FDDI
- file
- file import
- file replication
- FileServ™
- file system
- File System Database
- GUI
- HSM
- inode
- IP address
- IPI
- Journal
- jukebox
- label
- library
- mailbox
- media
- metadata
- migration
- multi-tier migration
- NFS
- NIS
- nonresident file
- optical
- Offline Media Manager
- RAID
- resident file
- RPC
- scattered writes
- SCSI Fast/Wide
- server
- SLD
- slot
- SMP
- space pool
- SSD
- standalone drives
- Storage Area Network
- storage policy
- striping
- stub file
- TCP/IP
- thrashing
- truncate
- UNIX™
- VBS
- volume
- volume group
- volume number
- VolServ™
- Windows NT™
- XDI
- Index

AMASS Overview
2-6 Accessing the Storage Network 6-00026-01 Rev A
Supported
Libraries and
Drives
AMASS supports a maximum of:
• 8 libraries
• 256 drives per library
• 65,000 volumes
AMASS supports the following types of storage devices:
• Multiple libraries of the same model in a daisy-chained
configuration
• Heterogeneous libraries, for example, optical and tape, in a
daisy-chained configuration
• A library with different drive types so you can mix media;
for example, 3590 and DTF media in the same library
• Standalone drives
For a list of supported libraries and drives as well as any other
information unique to the support of storage hardware, refer to
Accessing Storage Devices.
Connectivity
Libraries and standalone drives can be connected to the
AMASS server in the following ways:
• SCSI-attached drives and libraries
• RS-232-attached libraries
• Network-attached libraries
Tip
For best performance, ADIC recommends that each tape drive
be on its own SCSI host adapter board.