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[Veritas-bu] Multipathing San drives

2006-12-04 12:10:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multipathing San drives
From: ssesar at mitre.org (Steven L. Sesar)
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:10:06 -0500
You'll need multipathing software. For instance, in the EMC world, you 
'll need something like Navisphere.

Dave Markham wrote:
> Guys has anyone heard of trying to have resilient Tape drives over
> fiber? Someone came and asked me saying a new install was going to be
> specced having dual hba's providing 2 paths to the fiber attached tape
> drives. Im talking Solaris here and an L500 with LTO2 drives.
>
> I immediately couldnt see how it could work as Netbackup writes to tape
> using the /dev/rmt/ devices presented on solaris. I know using disks and
> mpxio etc you can multipath i/o to disks but is it possible to tape? I
> just don't want to have told him we shouldn't be doing things like that
> as its not possible in case it is.
>
> Cheers
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