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Appliance and HW compression on tape

PetrHanz
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Hi guys,

For supported tape library - Qualstar + 2x LTO5 FC the HW compress is not enable.

sginfo -a /dev/sgx show DCE = 0.

Appliance 5240 - 8.1.2.

The appliance has not stinit and mt command where is possible to enable this. Any supported recommendation for enable this ?   Many thanks

 

Petr

 

 

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Systems_Team
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Hi Petr,

Have you had a look in the GUI for your Qualstar library to see if compression shows as disabled there on your drives?  

Most modern libraries and drives have compression enabled by default and you can't turn it on or off (except with special firmware versions from the vendor), so it does seem strange.  NetBackup knows nothing about tape drive compression, but I'm guessing your Qualstar GUI will show the drives having compression turned off.

If that is the case, then I'd see if that can be changed using the Qualstar GUI, otherwise it might be an issue you have to raise with Qualstar.  I run 5230 appliances with a Dell TL4000 tape library and LTO6 FC drives.  The sginfo command shows DCE as 1 for me, but there is no way from the appliance or tape library GUI to change this.

Hope this helps,

Steve

sdo
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Is that show of DCE purely a show of current active mode, or is it a show of possible capability?

Maybe it is always zero when not actively writing / reading physical tape media?

Systems_Team
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For my environment, DCE shows as 1 regardless of any tape activity or not:

Data compression mode page (0xf)
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DCE 1
DCC 1
DDE 1
RED 0
Compression algorithm 255
Decompression algorithm 255

The above is no tape activity at all.

Steve

PetrHanz
Level 4
Partner Accredited Certified

Hi guys,

excuse me for long delay and many thanks

I have verified that Quantum has LTO HW compression enabled and I did export from IBM ITDT util and check this, see bellow

At the moment we stopped this and we are continue AIR to next appliance

 

===>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Log Sense PAGE CODE: 11: DT Device Status <<<<<<<<<<<<<<===
START TIME : út XI 21 15:15:10.364 2017
PAGE CODE : 11: DT Device Status
Very HF Data Byte 0 : VHF Data Valid (0)
Compression Enabled (4)
Host Initiated Unload (6)
Very HF Data Byte 1 : Medium Present (4)
Robotic Access Allowed (5)
DT Device Activity : 00 No activity
Very HF Data Byte 3 : TapeAlert State Flag Changed (0)
VHF Polling Delay (ms) : 500
DT PRIMARY PORT LENGTH : 08
DT Device Primary Port : 2b 01 00 26 00 00 00 6f 01 02 43 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7e 80 00 43 08 00 00 00 00 00 00