COMPAQ
                                                         AV-QD87R-TE
                                                         August 2001

 Dear HSM Customer,

 In an effort to provide enhanced storage management software capa-
 bility to our customers, Compaq offers this release of Compaq Hi-
 erarchical Storage Management (HSM) for OpenVMS[TM] Version V3.2A
 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 V3.2A provides new features as well bug fixes. Some of the new
 features are:

 o  HSM$CACHE_RENAME

    This logical when set to 1 in the system table will allow SMU
    ANALYZE/RENAME to remove the name descrepancy for files shelved
    only to cache.

 o  HSM$POLICY_PFQUOTA

    This logical can be used to specify the page file quota for
    the detached process created for executing the primary and
    secondary policy script files. In the absence of this logical
    HSM uses the system default page file quota as specified in by
    the system parameter. PQL_DPFLQUOTA. In the following example
    HSM will set 200000 pages in VAX and 200000 pagelets in ALPHA
    as the pagefile quota for the newly created process. DEFINE/SYS
    HSM$POLICY_PFQUOTA 200000.

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

 HSM for OpenVMS V3.2A 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
 V3.2A does not utilize the ODS5 disk structure.

 The kit includes:

 -  HSM for OpenVMS, V3.2A software and documentation

 -  MDMS for OpenVMS, V3.2A software and documentation

 HSM V3.2A 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 V3.2A is qualified to use MDMS V3.2A 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 V3.2A. For HSM customers who are not using either ABS or
 SLS, we recommend the use of MDMS V3.2A with HSM V3.2A.

                                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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