COMPAQ
                                                         AV-QD87Q-TE
                                                         April, 2001

 Dear HSM Customer,

 In an effort to provide enhanced storage management software ca-
 pability to our customers, Compaq offers this release of Compaq
 Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) for OpenVMS[TM] Version V3.2
 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 infre-
 quently accessed (dormant) data. This is accomplished by shelving
 the data to lower-cost devices and automatically unshelving it
 when the data is needed.

 HSM V3.2 provides new features as well as bug fixes. Some of the
 new features are:

 o  Preshelve of noshelvable files

 o  Enabling Multipath switching in an HSM environment

    HSM and Multipathing engineering have corrected this problem
    from 7.2 and 7.2-1. For any 7.2 or 7.2-1 user a patch kit is
    needed from Multipathing and HSM V3.2. Please refer Section 1.2
    in Release Notes for more information.

 o  Qualified for OpenVMS Version 7.3 VAX and Alpha

    -  OpenVMS Version 7.3 provides support for Fibre Channel (FC)
       connected tape devices. This is accomplished through the
       use of Modular Data Router (MDR) connected to the FC Switch.
       MDR converts Fibre Channel protocol to SCSI protocol, which
       the tape device understands. HSM V3.2 has qualified this
       new feature in OpenVMS 7.3 as used with MDR. Please refer
       to OpenVMS V7.3 for a complete listing of supported tape
       devices.

 o  Optimizing the SCMDS Response thread

 o  SMU DETECT for detecting files affected by potential shelving
    errors

                                NOTE

   Engineering has made available a product notice to all HSM
   3.0X users regarding SMU DETECT issue. Please refer Section
   2.1 in Release Notes for more information.

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

 HSM for OpenVMS V3.2 software has been designed to run on OpenVMS
 VAX Versions 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and on OpenVMS Alpha Versions 6.2,
 7.1-2, 7.2-1 and 7.3. The kit you have received is a full release
 and includes both the VAX and Alpha versions of the software. HSM
 V3.2 does not utilize the ODS5 disk structure.

 

 The kit includes:

 -  HSM for OpenVMS, V3.2 software and documentation

 -  MDMS for OpenVMS, V3.2 software and documentation

 HSM V3.2 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 features of HSM V3.2. There is no additional charge for
 Plus mode.

 Remote access to tape devices in Plus Mode requires Remote De-
 vice Facility[TM] (RDF). RDF is available in the MDMS savesets of
 this kit. An RDF license is required. An RDF license is available
 through the purchase of Archive Backup System or directly from
 Touch Technologies Inc.

 HSM V3.2 is qualified to use MDMS V3.2 or MDMS V2.9F for its media
 manager.

 For customers using Storage Library System (SLS) with HSM, we rec-
 ommend the use of MDMS V2.9F as the media manager. For customers
 using Archive Backup System (ABS) with HSM, we recommend the use
 of MDMS V3.2. For HSM customers who are not using either ABS or
 SLS, we recommend the use of MDMS V3.2 with HSM V3.2.

                                NOTE

   If you are a DCSC user, you cannot use HSM and DCSC on Fibre
   Channel. DCSC has chosen not to qualify Fibre Channel on
   OpenVMS 7.3.

 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,

 OpenVMS Product Management
 CXOSWPM@compaq.com
 © 2001 Compaq Computer Corporation.









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