Clients can't write to tape drives.  You need a media server for
that.  So you'll have one master/media, and 4 media servers (you can
get SAN media server licenses if they're only backing themselves
up).  You'll need Shared Storage Option (SSO) to handle dynamic drive
allocation.  

Make sure to check on drive/host support carefully.  There's I think 3
different LTO makers, and support may depend on whether they're pure
FC or SCSI via a bridge.  There's a matrix off support.veritas.com.

Steve Mickeler writes:
> 
> I've been handed this setup and now I'm trying to figure the easiest way
> to get this up and running.
> 
> Tape Unit: Dell Powervault 136T - 6 LTO drives
> Fibre Switch: Dell 51T direct attached to the Powervault & 5 Win 2000
> Hosts, each with their own Fibre Channel HBA.
> 
> I plan on using host 1 as the master/media server
> 
> How do you config it so that the hosts will directly talk to the LTO
> drives via Fibre Channel but have the master/media server control what
> drives it can write to and have the maste/media server store the
> information about the data that each client is backing up ?
> 
> Am I going about this the wrong way ?
> 
> 
> 
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