Chapter 1 Introduction
Purpose of This Guide
StorNext User’s Guide 3
Purpose of This Guide
This guide is intended to assist StorNext users perform day-to-day tasks
with the software. This guide also describes how to generate reports.
Quantum recommends using the graphical user interface to accomplish
tasks, but an appendix provides alternative procedures for users who
wish to perform those tasks via the command line interface.
How This Guide is Organized
This guide contains the following chapters:
• Chapter 1,
Introduction
• Chapter 2, StorNext GUI Overview
• Chapter 3, SNFS-Only GUI Overview
• Chapter 4, Common StorNext Tasks
• Chapter 5, Backing Up StorNext
• Chapter 6, Managing the File System
• Chapter 7, Managing Libraries
• Chapter 8, Managing Drives and Disks
• Chapter 9, Managing Media
• Chapter 10, Managing Storage Disks
• Chapter 11, Data Migration Management
• Chapter 12, StorNext Reports
• Chapter 13, Service Management
• Chapter 14, Customer Assistance
• Appendix A, Operating Guidelines
• Appendix B, HA Failover