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Re: [Veritas-bu] Why HP LTO4 come with 2 FC port ?

2008-05-22 09:57:36
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Why HP LTO4 come with 2 FC port ?
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin AT tacorp DOT net>
To: Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:41:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> Haven't played with FC drives yet but it isn't unusual in SAN
> environments to create redundant connections to devices.  Maybe they
> come with two ports to allow for that?
>
> Not sure how you'd get your OS to understand two paths to the same
> drives though.   Since NBU can distinguish busy drives on media servers
> maybe it can do so for two paths to same drive on one server if in the
> same storage unit?


Netbackup supports multipath to the drives.  I believe it does so my 
serial.

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