Ambrose,

Network Appliance has multiple Fibre Channel Solutions for TapeSAN that I urge you to look at.

These can be found in our Data Protection Portal at http://www.netapp.com/solutions/data_protection.html

and click on the FC SAN on the left.

Unfortunately, we do not have an Overland Data Library in our current tapeSAN solutions, but I do want to suggest you make a request through your Netapp Sales Representative specifying library model, etc. so the feedback can be incorporated into future solutions.

Our TapeSAN solution certification processes allow us to work with the partners to eliminate any 'enormous problems' you the customer would have deploying those certified tapeSAN configurations.

Dave parisse@netapp.com Third Party Engineering Manager Network Appliance, Inc.

-----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,