Of course, you need MPIO for fiber optics tape drives. It is not only high 
availability. It is better performance as well.

Grigori G. Solonovitch

Senior Technical Architect

Information Technology  Bank of Kuwait and Middle East  http://www.bkme.com

Phone: (+965) 2231-2274  Mobile: (+965) 99798073  E-Mail: G.Solonovitch AT bkme 
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Mehdi Salehi
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 1:57 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] MPIO for tape libraries

Hi,
Does it make sense to have MPIO for tapes? As tape libraries play an
important role in TSM, their connection to hosts and specially to TSM server
itself should be a reliable one. Should I expect to have link failover
and/or load balancing for tape drives (something like SDDPCM, HDLM, ... for
disk subsystems)?

Thanks

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