Kelly_Stevenson
13 years agoLevel 4
NB 6.5.6 Solaris 10 and IBM ultrium 5/lto5 tape drives and multipathing
We have an IBM 3594 tape library with some dual port LTO5 tape drives. We have them connected to 2 different Brocade switches - so multipathed. The master and media servers are all running Solaris 10u9 and NB 6.5.6. The Tape library and tape drives are at the latest firmware levels. The multipathed robot via NB seems fine.
We are having issues periodically with the tape drives becoming unavailable and causing PLOGI errors in the servers. We are using the native Solaris st drivers. It seems to be more of a tape drive to server issue - not NB.
Does NB 6.5.6 support us using the IBMTape driver instead of the st drivers?
Has anyone gotten the multipathing ibm lto5 tape drives to work with Solaris 10 and NB 6.5.6 properly ?
Regards
Kelly