Tape integration in NBU 5230 appliance

[liuyang]

Hi, we are going to setup NBU 5230 appliance for one customer. Currently the customer has a few tape libraries (different models from HP and IBM, all use FC connections) and they would like to add some of these tape drives to the NBU 5230 appliance. My questions are as follows:

1) Do we need to install tape drive driver in NBU 5230 appliance? If yes, how to install? If no, how does the appliance detect the tape drives?

2) The NBU 5230 appliance the customer bought comes with 6 FC initiator ports, what are the best practise to zone these ports to the tape library? Different ports to different model of tape libraries? Or same ports for all?

Please advise. Thanks.

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

1) No - the appliance is SUSE Linux and has all the tape drivers required for all supported tape drives - just plug them in a do a scan (Manage - Storage - Scan and then Manage - Storage - Show to confirm they are seen)

2) If you will not be connecting and FT Media Servers or VMware LUNS then you can use any of the ports

Do not mix disk and tape on the same port

Other than that use the same rules you would for any other system - so minimise the number of drives per port - doesnt matter which ones go where really and it also supports multi-paths to the drives

Hope this helps