[Veritas-bu] Tape SANs and dedicated HBAs
2004-08-10 10:41:47
I would recommend using separate HBA ports for disk and tape. This is
especially so if your disks have any kind of dual-path software.
The driver parameters for disk with failover will be different from tape;
notably timeouts will be different. There are for some HBAs settings to
help with tape device recovery, they may not suit disks.
I'm not aware of any dual-path software for tapes.
And of course, if you hang a couple of LTO2 tapes on the fibre (35MB/s),
and have data that backs up at 2:1 compression (so 70MB/s)...you are going
to use a lot of the fibre. That may not make disk performance good.
William D L Brown
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