Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive addressing in SL8500 library


On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

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> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Forester, Jack L wrote:
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>> Greetings, everyone...
>> 
>> I'm getting ready to replace a StorageTek Powderhorn 9310 library with
>> an SL8500 library very soon.  I was wondering how NetBackup handles
>> drive addressing in the SL8500.  With the 9310, drives were addressed by
>> ACS,LSM,Panel,Drive whereas with the SL8500 the address contains 5
>> components - Library,Rail,Column,Side,Row.  Since the value of 'side' is
>> always 1 as the drives are on the outer wall, is this value simply not
>> used when configuring the drives in NetBackup, or can NetBackup accept
>> all 5 components of the address?
>> 
>> Jack L. Forester, Jr.
>> UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
>> Lockheed Martin Information Technology
>> (304) 625-3946
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> The SL8500 uses; acs,lsm,panel,drive.
>
> Justin.
>

Here is an example, this media server has 4 drives attached to it:

Id  DriveName           Type   Residence
       Drive Path                                                       Status
****************************************************************************
0   Drive04        hcart3 ACS(0)  ACS=0, LSM=3, PANEL=1, DRIVE=3
       /dev/st/nh0c0t0l0                                                UP
1   Drive08        hcart3 ACS(0)  ACS=0, LSM=3, PANEL=1, DRIVE=2
       /dev/st/nh1c0t0l0                                                UP
2   Drive20        hcart3 ACS(0)  ACS=0, LSM=2, PANEL=1, DRIVE=3
       /dev/st/nh2c0t0l0                                                UP
3   Drive24        hcart3 ACS(0)  ACS=0, LSM=2, PANEL=1, DRIVE=2
       /dev/st/nh3c0t0l0                                                UP

You would configure as follows:

/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -robot 0 -drive 3 -robtype acs -ACS 0 
-LSM 2 -PANEL 1 -DRIVE 2 ; /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -drive 3 
-newasciiname Drive24
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -robot 0 -drive 2 -robtype acs -ACS 0 
-LSM 2 -PANEL 1 -DRIVE 3 ; /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -drive 2 
-newasciiname Drive20
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -robot 0 -drive 1 -robtype acs -ACS 0 
-LSM 3 -PANEL 1 -DRIVE 2 ; /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -drive 1 
-newasciiname Drive08
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -robot 0 -drive 0 -robtype acs -ACS 0 
-LSM 3 -PANEL 1 -DRIVE 3 ; /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -update -drive 0 
-newasciiname Drive04

Justin.

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