We've got the robot on the master here with two drives and no issues.  I
doubt the robot is going to do very much data transfer / interfere with
whatever disk activity you've got going on.  If you are using 4Gb HBAs I
don't see any reason to install a 2nd HBA just for the robot.
Alternately the media servers can run the robot as well, we were
configured like that before I upgraded to NBU 6.0.

-Jonathan 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Travis
Kelley
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:06 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Robotic control host...master/media

We're implementing a san for our tape drives and I was just wondering
where most of you guys have robotic control?  We currently use one of
the media servers, but once we have the SAN configured I understand it
can also be on the master.  I hesitatae to put it there because our
master is attached to a different (disk) SAN for the catalog disks, so
if I move robotic control to the master I have to add another HBA and
burn another port on the switch.  Anyone have any compelling reasons to
move it to the master?
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