We do this right now.  NW 7.1.4 on Solaris 9 using an Overland Storage Neo 
8000 library with 9 x LTO2 drives.  We have one Networker server and two 
storage nodes on this single library.  Each system has several drives 
dedicated directly to them with one additional drive setup for DDS between 
the two storage nodes.  DDS is on the single drive to handle extra demand 
when/where needed. 

Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
National Instruments

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You certainly can in NetWorker V7.3, and I believe jbconfig allows you to 
do
this in NetWorker V7.1.4.

tl

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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
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Behalf Of Teresa Biehler
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:40 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Storage nodes/server sharing a tape library

We currently have our NW server sharing several tape drives with a
dedicated storage node using DDS.  We're looking at implementing a
storage node (not dedicated) to reduce the load on our NW server.
Rather than using DDS to share drives between this new storage node and
the NW server, we'd like to dedicate several tape drives to just this
storage node.  If the NW server controls the robotics of the library,
can we assign drives to be used only by a storage node?

 

Our environment's details:

- NW server v7.1.4 on Solaris 9 (soon to be NW v7.2.2 on Solaris 10)

- ADIC Sc10K

- Proposed storage node would be running Solaris 10 and the same version
of NW as the server

 

Thanks.

Teresa


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