You can reboot the FC-SCSI bridges and sometimes that helps.  But
sometimes the problems occurs when that happens.

This was on HP hardware and YMMV.

I know the drive serialization was supposed to work on the serial number
of the tape drive and as I understand starting with 7 Networker
collected that info.  But has not made use of it.



Brian 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Gaddy
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:29 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] NetWorker + Windows SAN Tapes

Davina wrote:
> Persistent binding is not sufficient to totally solve this problem.
>
> Persistent binding locks down the binding of WWPN or WWNN to SCSI 
> b.t.l addresses.
> It does not control the mapping of SCSI addresses to Windows device 
> names.

YES, Davina matches exactly the point
(which she does most of the time :-)
[ enjoy your postings very much -sg-]

Persistent binding would only help, if NetWorker could work with
physical addresses like [email protected].
Unfortunately it could not, or could it? [ TSM can :-(  ]

Changing the OS type is NOT an option,
because investment in 250++ servers (many 4-/8-way) is already huge.

So I'm still looking for other Wintel NetWorkers who have to deal with
the problem and have found ways to ease the pain a bit.

Has someone found a way to reorder SCSI addresses to Windows device
names "on the fly"?

Regards -Steffen-

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