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[Veritas-bu] Multipathing San drives

2006-12-04 20:53:56
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multipathing San drives
From: hakansom at ohsu.edu (Marion Hakanson)
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:53:56 -0800
On 12/4/2006 11:01 AM, Dave Markham wrote:
> Guys has anyone heard of trying to have resilient Tape drives over
> fiber? Someone came and asked me saying a new install was going to be
> specced having dual hba's providing 2 paths to the fiber attached tape
> drives. Im talking Solaris here and an L500 with LTO2 drives.

As of Solaris-10, with Sun's bundled mpxio (formerly Traffic Manager),
the docs say multipathing for tape devices is not supported.  It may
be that 3rd-party multipathing drivers could do it, though.

Regards,

Marion




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