Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN clients on HP ESL library and tape drive sharing
2008-02-04 02:21:49
You have to something like LUN masking (either at host level or at the
other end).
On Nov 27, 2007 8:09 PM, jim fred <jim.fred01 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm puzzled ..........somebody has informed me that you can't zone a subset
> of the tape drives in a virtual partition HP ESL 712e Libary.
> They are saying you get everything i.e all media servers see all the tape
> drives. This sounds very messy to me.
> From what I have told these libraries have a NSR controller from which
> control ls at least two (FC connected) tape drives.
>
> You should be able to zone subsets of tape drives, in the same partition, to
> be shared between a group of media servers.
> Having each server/HBA with 15+ tape drives connected in my opinion not best
> practise.
>
> Is possible to have media a group of media servers see only a selection of
> tape so that they can be shared amongst themselves?
> If this is possible what is the granularity? Individual tape drivers or at
> the NSR level level?
>
>
> Regrads Jim
>
>
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