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10-07-2009 09:46 AM
i was wrong you need to use switch any ways.
10-07-2009 09:52 AM
10-07-2009 11:30 AM
IF your drives and server's HBAs are connected through switch, you can configured multiple devices on each HBA port (unless you have already attached your drives in loop in tape library)
You can easily share the tape drives between media servers (SSO)
If a cable goed bad on library side, you will impact only one drive instead of multiple in that loop.
The downside to it -- switches are expensive :(
10-08-2009 05:07 AM
If you use switch then you can zone them to the servers for optimum utilization and using SSO you can share all the drives to media servers by keeping one robotic control host.
02-12-2010 12:20 PM