ADIC 601354 manual Media Class Name Media Type Class Capacity

Administrative Tasks

Media Class Name

Media Type

Class Capacity

•A Media Class is an integral part of the media migration philosophy. When media type migration or media class migration occur, media must stay within the same media class.

Basic Media Class parameters include the Media Class name, media type, class capacity, mountable by class, high mark, notification comment, and use callbacks and callback information.

The Media Class name parameter is a user-specified name by which the Media Class is known to the user. Valid Media Class names may contain up to 16 characters, including spaces. Leading and trailing spaces are not permitted.

The media type parameter identifies the type of media used in the Media Class. As noted before, only one media type can be specified for a Media Class.

Media Classes are designed to be associated with multiple archives. Media migration cannot occur unless a media class spans at least two archives. However, a media class can be wholly associated with one archive.

Therefore, plan Media Class capacities to cover the expected size of the archives configured earlier. See the following page for an example of two media classes associated with two archives.

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