The documents say you are supposed to NOT have SAN and tape devices running on the same HBAs.
I would expect you would use 2 HBAs to connect to the SAN and 2 to connect to the tape drives. 2 cards have more than enough bandwidth to support the 4 LTO3 drives. Ben -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stef Coene Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Number of HBA's Hi, For a setup with: - 4 x LTO3 drives in a IBM 3583 library - 1 oracle database server: 40GB/1hr archives that needs to backuped (AIX LPAR) over the SAN - 1 TSM server (AIX LPAR) What with the HBA's? Is it needed to split the tape and disk activity and to put 4 HBA's in the oracle DB (2 HBA's for disk activitiy and 2 for tape)? Idem for the TSM server. 2 HBA's or 4 HBA's? Stef