Greetings,    
    There are a couple people at our company that contend that FC is
going away, and in a very short time everything will be iscsi.  I am
afraid I am completely ignorant about iscsi as it relates to tape
traffic.  My questions are:
    
1) Can anybody tell me what is going on in the iscsi world around tape?

2) Are there iscsi software/hardware solutions for Windows and AIX (or
TSM platforms) attached tape?  
3) Are there tape drives/libraries with native iscsi support, or are
converters necessary?  
4) Have any of you converted from a SCSI or FC tape environment to
iscsi?  If so, what were the gotchas?
 
Thanks in advance for the input.

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider 
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage 
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems 
3637 South Geyer Road 
St. Louis, MO  63127 
Phone: 314-364-3150 
Cell: 314-486-2359 
Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net

 
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