Thank you all for y'r responses. The consensus is to have a single SAN
for both disk arrays and tape SAN.  It saves resources and easy to
manage a single SAN. Most of them haven't seen any issues so far. I am
more inclined in configuring this way.

But some people use different SANs becuase of their company policy of
segragating the DATA and Tape SANs.

Thanx Again

-Shyam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shyam Hazari <shazari AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Jun 7, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: Tape SAN + Data SAN
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu


We are in the process of  buying a STK tape library with LTO (Fiber)
drives.  I have two options.

1) use the existing SAN infrastructure to connect the tape drives. I
don't have to buy any extra switches as I have plenty of available
ports.

or

2) buy extra switches.

I would prefer to go with option 2.  My question is , anyone using the
existing SAN by mixing the tape libraries and the disk arrays ?

TIA

-Hazari