For nearly three decades, STAR-1100 has been protecting crucial data stored on magnetic tapes in Unisys OS 2200 data centers around the world. STAR-1100 helps management protect their data, streamline tape operations, and access extensive reporting on tape use.
With DSI’s introduction of its virtual tape library (VTL) systems into the OS 2200 market, operations managers and application users have access to greater levels of productivity. Continuously keeping pace with changing trends in enterprise operations, FCI has enhanced STAR-1100 to extend its comprehensive protection and management features to virtual tape volumes.
User programs and utilities access virtual tape volumes much the same as physical volumes, requiring similar protection against inadvertent overwriting. In STAR 8R1, FCI generalized the scratch tape selection process to support external applications calling STAR to access scratch volumes.
To implement a virtual tape solution under OS 2200, users need a device management function to differentiate between an allocation for a physical tape and a request for a virtual tape. STAR Library Manager enables the attachment of DSI Virtual Tape Libraries to an OS 2200 system. STAR Library Manager detects user requests for virtual tapes, drives and routes, mounting and dismounting requests to the appropriate DSI Virtual Tape Library. It also takes advantage of STAR-1100’s scratch selector service to use scratch pools belonging to the appropriate virtual tape library. STAR Library Manager is tightly integrated with STAR-1100. For additional information about STAR Library Manager, see the page on that topic.
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