The reason I say a second HBA is that we will have 2 seperate fabrics.
 One will have all of the tape drives and robotic control and the
other is our disk fabric.



On 4/9/08, Martin, Jonathan <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com> wrote:
> 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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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Robotic control host...master/media
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> 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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