Quantum 3.5.2 manual Disk Naming Requirements, General Operating Guidelines and Limitations

Disk Naming Requirements

Beginning with StorNext 3.1.2, the GUI has been modified to handle all known issues with file names containing these non-standard characters. Still, Quantum strongly recommends against deliberately using these characters in filenames.

If the GUI encounters a filename containing a “less-than-32” ASCII character, the character is rendered in the display as in the following examples:

•A horizontal tab is shown as “__0x09__”.

•A line feed is shown as “__0x0A__”.

•A carriage return is shown as “__0x0D__”.

The following additional characters should be avoided in “mixed” environments containing both Windows and non-Windows clients, because Windows will not be able process any file or directory with these characters in the name:

? \ < > “ :

Disk Naming Requirements

When naming disks, names should be unique across all SANs. If a client connects to more than one SAN, a conflict will arise if the client sees two disks with the same name.

General Operating Guidelines and Limitations

Table 1 lists updated information and guidelines for running StorNext, as well as known limitations.

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