Hello Earle,
Firstly, attached is the URL http://www.netapp.com/osn/info/config.html#fcsan that captures NetApp certified tape SAN configurations.
Regarding the configuration you outlined below, the 3rd Party Engineering group (responsible for certifying tape SAN solutions) has no visibility to the Overland Data Library. This library is not NetApp certified.
Further, we do not support having any other (non NetApp) device connected to the same FC switch as filers. We believe that if non-NetApp devices must be connected to the same FC switch as with filers, those devices must then be configured in a separate zone from the filers. We are in the process of beginning filer/none filer interoperable switch tests using zoning. The bottom line is, we are not full fabric compliant at this point. The library should be configured as NL-Port before the filer can see the tape drives.
You did not mentioned which bridge is in the library. However, we currently support Pathlight and Crossroads bridges in STK L180, L700 and ADIC Scalar 1000 respectively.
In summary, the configuration you mentioned is not a supported tape SAN configuration, but hope that the additional information I provided will help you to understand how our supported configuration works.
We expect to start talks with Overland very soon on certifying their libraries.
Michael.
-----Original Message----- From: Ambrose_Earle@shamrockfoods.com [mailto:Ambrose_Earle@shamrockfoods.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:40 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Tape SAN Help
We are having enormous problems configuring our new tape libraries with our filers. We keep getting different answers from people and I hope that someone on this list has something similar in production and they would be willing to share their information.
Here's what we hope to have running: 2 F840c's 1 Brocade 2400 2 internal fibre channel bridges inside an Overland Data library a few other servers on the switch NetVault with dynamic drive sharing option
So, should everything be fabric, do we need to zone, any other ideas?
Thanks for your time,