[Veritas-bu] Multipathing San drives
2006-12-05 06:29:21
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[Veritas-bu] Multipathing San drives |
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dave.markham at fjserv.net (Dave Markham) |
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Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:29:21 +0000 |
Thanks guys you have all confirmed what i have told the so called
solution designer to be true and that multipathing tape devices isnt an
option.
Cheers
Marion Hakanson wrote:
> On 12/4/2006 11:01 AM, Dave Markham wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> As of Solaris-10, with Sun's bundled mpxio (formerly Traffic Manager),
> the docs say multipathing for tape devices is not supported. It may
> be that 3rd-party multipathing drivers could do it, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marion
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