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Library Overview
18 ESL E-Series Tape Library User’s Guide
Back panel
The back of the library cabinet (see Figure 2) provides easy access to:
Cooling fans
Power, control, and data interfaces
Tape drives
Tape drive communication (cluster controller card and Interface Manager
card)
Card cage with FC interface controllers and a robotics controller card
Figure 2: Library cabinet - back panels
1 Card cage
2 Power supplies (2 per drive cluster and 2
per card cage)
3 Tape drives (up to 4 per drive cluster)
4 Cooling fans (1 per drive and 1 per card
cage)
5 Cluster 0
6 Cluster controller card (1 per drive cluster)
7 Interface manager
Tape drives
Power supplies
Tape drive communication
(4 drives per cluster)
(2 per drive cluster)
(1 per drive cluster)
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PORT 1 PORT 0 ETHERNET
SERIAL
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PORT 1 PORT 0 ETHERNET
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