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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2014
Applicant:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Christopher Anthony Grant Hillier, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Curtis C Ballard, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0682 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01); G11B 5/00813 (2013.01);
Abstract
Storage management is performed by detecting installation of at least one new physical tape drive in a storage system. The storage system may include a plurality of tape drives. The plurality of tape drives include physical tape drives and virtual tape drives. Based on the detection, a unique name of at least one virtual tape drive is transferred to the at least one new physical tape drive.