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                                                   October, 2000

Dear HSM Customer,

In an effort to provide enhanced storage management software
capability to our customers, Compaq offers this release of
Compaq Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) for OpenVMS[TM]
Version V3.1 software. Thank you for your recent purchase of
this product.

HSM is a layered software product that extends the OpenVMS file
system, allowing efficient and cost-effective management of
infrequently accessed (dormant) data. This is accomplished
by shelving the data to lower-cost devices and automatically
unshelving it when the data is needed.

HSM V3.1 provides several new features as well as bug fixes.
Some of the new features are:

o  A new qualifier for the UNSHELVE command,the /HIGH_PRIORITY
   qualifier. The use of this qualifier boosts the priority of
   the unshelve request.

o  The automatic checkpoint generated as the result of problems
   are logged in the shelf handler log.

o  Changes to the SMU ANALYZE/REPAIR command.

o  An OPCOM alert for HSM license use. Now when 95% of the
   license capacity is used, an OPCOM message is issued.

For more details on these items or the bug fixes, please refer
to the release notes.

HSM for OpenVMS V3.1 software has been designed to run on Open-
VMS VAX Versions 6.2, 7.1, 7.2 and on OpenVMS Alpha Versions
6.2, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.2-1. The kit you have received is a full
release and includes both the VAX and Alpha versions of the
software. HSM V3.1 does not support the ODS5 disk structure.

The kit includes:

-  HSM for OpenVMS, V3.1 software and documentation

-  MDMS for OpenVMS, V3.1 software and documentation

HSM V3.1 can be configured to run in one of two modes, Basic
or Plus. If you are using HSM in the Plus mode, you will need
to install Media and Device Management Services (MDMS) unless
Archive Backup System (ABS) software is already present on your
system. MDMS is also required to use the tape repacking and
backup via shelving support features of HSM V3.1.

Remote access to tape devices in Plus Mode requires Remote
Device Facility[TM] (RDF). RDF is available through MDMS on
the Consolidated Software CD-ROM. An RDF license is required. An

 

RDF license is available through the purchase of Archive Backup
System or directly from Touch Technologies Inc.

HSM V3.1 supports the use of MDMS V3.1 or MDMS V2.9C for its
media manager.

For customers using Storage Library Systme (SLS) with HSM, we
recommend the use of MDMS V2.9D as the media manager. For cus-
tomers using Archive Backup System (ABS) with HSM, we recommend
the use of MDMS V3.1. For HSM customers who are not using either
ABS or SLS, we recommend the use of MDMS V3.1 with HSM V3.1.

For additional information, please refer to the product documen-
tation. If you need assistance with this product, please call
the Customer Support Center.

Once again, thank you for your purchase of this product.

Sincerely,

Bryan Cox
Product Manager HSM for OpenVMS
Bryan.Cox@compaq.com
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