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| dsharky 2003-05-16, 6:03 pm |
| My book kind of confused me about the whole Removeable Storage management?
Is this a control panel object? Also talked about Robotic and Stand-alone libraries, etc.
I mean, i know what a removable service is, but it goes into details which totally confused me.
Here's an excerpt from my book
"Before RSM can be set up and used, there must be removable
media resources to manage. There are three types of removable
media supported by RSM. They are described in the following
sections." | |
| sgirardo 2003-05-16, 7:53 pm |
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Is this a control panel object?
It's located in Computer Management under Storage.
quote:
"Before RSM can be set up and used, there must be removable
media resources to manage. There are three types of removable
media supported by RSM. They are described in the following
sections."
That sounds about right.
From W2K Pro Resource kit:
Basic Concepts
Removable Storage can be described in terms of five basic concepts: media, physical location, media pools, work queue items, and operator requests. The first item in this list, "media," is the most fundamental and affects all others. The remaining four items in the list are the top-level nodes in Removable Storage.
Overview of Removable Storage
Removable Storage provides services to applications and system administrators that facilitate the use, sharing, and management of removable media devices, such as tape drives and robotic storage libraries. The availability of Removable Storage technology eliminates the need for independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop customized solutions and support for these devices on a per-device basis. More importantly, Removable Storage enables multiple applications to share expensive removable media storage devices. This allows the focus of storage applications to be directed to customer features rather than hardware issues.
Removable Storage provides a single set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow applications to catalog all removable media (except floppy disks and similar small-capacity media), such as disk, tape, and optical media, which are either stored on shelves (offline) or in libraries (online). Also, by disguising the complexities of underlying robotic library systems, Removable Storage both lowers the costs of developing and operating storage applications and provides consistency to customers who purchase these applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...rt3/proch18.asp |
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