http://www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20000202.html

Please consult ATL and Spectra Logic for specific details about the configurations.

-----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