BDMcGrew
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Greetings, again!
Has anyone ever had any kind of good luck with FiberChannel to Ethernet converters; maybe something similar to this Perle box (https://www.perle.com/products/gigabit-managed-media-converters.shtml)? I know Perle is a decent company, we use their USB to Serial boxes all the time.
Reason I'm asking is I need to add a tape library into my setup and I've found a refurbished Dell LTO4 auto loader with 2 drives but it's FC. I'm not setup for FC, don't really want the expense of implementing it and all my single-slot servers are full of quad port network cards so I also have no place for an FC card.
And if they work, will TSM play nicely with it? I'm running TSM 6.3 on CentOS 6 inside and ESXi 6 HA cluster. All of my stg is disk based and everything runs super smooth. My decv filedev1 points to a couple places out in my storage array and it's just all working.
If I add a FC library on an Ethernet media converter, will it work with TSM?
The idea is of course, move the data out of the building... So, anyone, ever done something like this?
Has anyone ever had any kind of good luck with FiberChannel to Ethernet converters; maybe something similar to this Perle box (https://www.perle.com/products/gigabit-managed-media-converters.shtml)? I know Perle is a decent company, we use their USB to Serial boxes all the time.
Reason I'm asking is I need to add a tape library into my setup and I've found a refurbished Dell LTO4 auto loader with 2 drives but it's FC. I'm not setup for FC, don't really want the expense of implementing it and all my single-slot servers are full of quad port network cards so I also have no place for an FC card.
And if they work, will TSM play nicely with it? I'm running TSM 6.3 on CentOS 6 inside and ESXi 6 HA cluster. All of my stg is disk based and everything runs super smooth. My decv filedev1 points to a couple places out in my storage array and it's just all working.
If I add a FC library on an Ethernet media converter, will it work with TSM?
The idea is of course, move the data out of the building... So, anyone, ever done something like this?