Disk Library

The document provides information necessary to prepare a site for a cabinet installation.

Illustrated guide to removing EMC's 40U-C cabinet from the shipping pallet and preparing it for installation.

This document describes the aspects of sizing, capacity and performance, which need to be considered when designing a DLm solution. Sizing for capacity takes into account the total amount of data that a customer plans on storing on the DLm. Sizing for performance considers the customer’s backup windows and RPOs. This paper provides guidelines for both aspects of the sizing exercise.

These technical notes contain information about using the EDL EMC Tools Package for EDL including troubleshooting various error conditions.

The Mainframe Data Library (MDL) 2000/1000 for Data Domain documentation is available here. This manual contains all messages issued by Bus-Tech's Virtuent Tape-on-Disk solution. For MDL for Data Domain product support, contact EMC Support.

The EMC Disk Library online help replaces the Administrator's Guide and describes how to manage and use the EMC Disk Library Console.

Describes the commands you can use to perform EMC Disk Library (EDL) functions from the Command Line Interface (CLI).

Data de-duplication refers to a specific approach to data reduction built on a methodology that systematically substitutes reference pointers for redundant variable-length blocks (or data segments) in a specific dataset. The technical note describes how EMC implements this technology in its DL3D product line.