Deleting the Partitioning Feature
The screen display is from the perspective of Partition 1, therefore the resources allocated to Partition 1 are shown in gold, and the resources allocated to Partition 2 and Partition 6 are shown in red. TABLE
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| Resource Group | Included Resources |
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| Partition 1 | All resources are shown in gold. Includes the following: |
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| ■ Tape drive in the Base Module |
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| ■ Storage cells in the left side of the Base Module |
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| ■ Top two CAP cells in the Base Module |
| Partition 2 | All resources are shown in red. Includes the following: |
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| ■ Top tape drive in the Drive Module |
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| ■ Storage cells in the right side of the Base Module |
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| ■ No allocated CAP cells |
| Partition 6 | All resources are shown in red. Includes the following: |
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| ■ Bottom tape drive in the Drive Module |
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| ■ Storage cells in the Drive Module |
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| ■ Bottom two CAP cells in the Base Module |
| Common CAP cell | Middle CAP cell in the Base Module |
| Unassigned | All resources shown in white |
| Not Accessible | All resources shown x’ed out |
| Orphaned | Cartridge in unallocated (white) storage cell in the Base Module |
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Deleting the Partitioning Feature
You can delete the Partitioning feature by deleting the Partitioning license key file from the library. See “Delete a License Key File” on page 126 for detailed instructions. You must reboot the library after deleting the Partitioning license in order for the deletion to take effect.
Note – Deleting the Partitioning feature is an exceptional situation; be sure this is what you really want to do.
Deleting the Partitioning feature has the following effects on the library configuration:
■Changes the library state to
■Makes all licensed storage cells, drives, and CAPs accessible to all hosts.
■All existing partition summary information and resource allocations are retained, but not usable. If the Partitioning license is later
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