ONTAP 9

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Commands for managing tape drives, media changers, and tape drive operations

There are commands for viewing information about tape drives and media changers in a cluster, bringing a tape drive online and taking it offline, modifying the tape drive cartridge position, setting and clearing tape drive alias name, and resetting a tape drive. You can also view and reset tape drive statistics.

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Bring a tape drive online

storage tape online

Clear an alias name for tape drive or media changer

storage tape alias clear

Enable or disable a tape trace operation for a tape drive

storage tape trace

Modify the tape drive cartridge position

storage tape position

Reset a tape drive

storage tape reset

This command is available only at the advanced privilege level.

Set an alias name for tape drive or media changer

storage tape alias set

Take a tape drive offline

storage tape offline

View information about all tape drives and media changers

storage tape show

View information about tape drives attached to the cluster

  • storage tape show-tape-drive

  • system node hardware tape drive show

View information about media changers attached to the cluster

storage tape show-media-changer

View error information about tape drives attached to the cluster

storage tape show-errors

View all ONTAP qualified and supported tape drives attached to each node in the cluster

storage tape show-supported-status

View aliases of all tape drives and media changers attached to each node in the cluster

storage tape alias show

Reset the statistics reading of a tape drive to zero

storage stats tape zero tape_name

You must use this command at the nodeshell.

View tape drives supported by ONTAP

storage show tape supported [-v]

You must use this command at the nodeshell. You can use the -v option to view more details about each tape drive.

View tape device statistics to understand tape performance and check usage pattern

storage stats tape tape_name

You must use this command at the nodeshell.

For more information about these commands, see the man pages.

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