I will be going fiber-attach next year and will have two adapters in my TSM server. Do I put a fiber switch in the tape library (3584), tie all the drives to it, and run two fibers back to the TSM se
Author: "Davidson, Becky" <Becky.Davidson AT SLBG DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:19:45 -0500
We have 21 lto drives that connect to 3 8 port hubs (each in the lto cabinet they service) that connect 1 1 gb switch We then have 3-4 paths to each of the hosts. We have 21 drives on the other side
Author: Alex Paschal <AlexPaschal AT FREIGHTLINER DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:33:24 -0700
We have 20 9840's, not LTO's, but I wouldn't expect the topology preferences to be much different. We go 9840 -> SAN cloud (FC switches) -> 4 HBAs in TSM server. If you have existing SAN infrastructu
Author: "Wilcox, Andy" <andy.wilcox AT AQUILA-NETWORKS.CO DOT UK>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:23:53 +0100
One consideration to make here is that the IBM recommendation for Fibre LTO drives is no more the 2 per HBA. Although taking into consideration that this was with LTO1 drives on 1Gb FC HBAs, I would
Thanks Andy (and the resto of you who've responded). I'm taking the two drives per HBA with a grain of salt :-) If you follow the recommendations to the letter -- not more than two drives per HBA and
Author: Zlatko Krastev <acit AT ATTGLOBAL DOT NET>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:26:00 +0300
It highly depends on what you are trying to achieve - cost, performance, redundancy or mixture of them. 1. Cost - two hubs and single-attached drives split between them is the cheapest (and worst in