Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Huebner, Andy
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Redundant Tape SAN Andy, Dual-ported drives such as the 3592 can be connected to both fabrics. Single ported drives such as lto4 can be connected only to one fabric but you can alternate which fabrics the drives are connected to. So, half of the single ported drives

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Richard Rhodes
nnect to the fabric. We use Atape with multi-pathing. Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner, Andy Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Redundant Tape SAN Is anyone using redu

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Rick Saylor
ebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Saylor Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Redundant Tape SAN Andy, What do you mean by "redundant tape san"? Multiple tape libraries

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Huebner, Andy
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Redundant Tape SAN Andy, What do you mean by "redundant tape san"? Multiple tape libraries at the same or remote location? Tape drives with more than one fiber port? Thanks, Rick At 08:19 AM 2/26/2014, you wrote: >Is anyone using redundant tape SAN wi

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Mike De Gasperis
VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Redundant Tape SAN We utilize a redundant tape SAN at our main data centers with multiple host site HBA ports. Using the Atape control and data path fail-over op

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Rick Saylor
Andy, What do you mean by "redundant tape san"? Multiple tape libraries at the same or remote location? Tape drives with more than one fiber port? Thanks, Rick At 08:19 AM 2/26/2014, you wrote: Is anyone using redundant tape SAN with TSM on AIX? Andy Huebner

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Huebner, Andy
--Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Redundant Tape SAN We utilize a redundant tape SAN at our main data centers with multiple host

Re: Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Mike De Gasperis
We utilize a redundant tape SAN at our main data centers with multiple host site HBA ports. Using the Atape control and data path fail-over options we have twelve device entries for each physical tape device. Works really well and this is in an AIX/LPAR/VIO environment, we've virtualize

Redundant Tape SAN

2014-02-26 Thread Huebner, Andy
Is anyone using redundant tape SAN with TSM on AIX? Andy Huebner