Hi Jason, Yep we do, with a few differences. The solution that has been tested and certified is as follows. NetApp filer Vixel 8100 switch ( with special NAS firmware) Veritas or Legato software Spectralogic or ATL libraries The press release announcing this can be found at www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20000202.html also if you check the Spectralogic web site and the Vixel web site they have more information. FYI, NetApps does not sell the pieces and integration for this solution but several of our resellers do.

-----Original Message----- From: jmiddlebrooks@datalink.com [mailto:jmiddlebrooks@datalink.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 6:51 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Cc: Engineering@datalink.com Subject: Attaching a Netapp to Fibre Tape drives in a SAN???

Has anybody had any thoughts or done any testing with the following configuration? Basically connecting a Netapp into a SAN for backups not storage.

One Netapp F760 One extra Fibre Card in the Netapp One Firbre Switch (Brocade or Ancor) One Tape Library connected into the Fibre Switch. Veritas Netbackup and NDMP Solaris or NT Netbackup Master and several Media servers

Connect the Netapp into the swtich with the extra fibre connection. Zone the switch so the Netapp and two tape drives are tied together. Backup driectly to the tape drives by using NDMP.

My questions to Netapp are: 1) Is this possible? 2) How would the Netapp log into the switch? As a Loop or Fabric? 3) What is the solution for backing up a Netapp directly to Fibre tape drives? 4) What is supported?

I am going to test what I thank will work but any thoughts or ideas would be helpful.

Jason Middlebrooks Systems Engineer Datalink Corp. 888-933-9327 x2970