We tested EMULEX before it was supported on the Magstar in a SAN and were unsuccessful. Eventually, IBM fixed the microcode in the 3590 drives and the Magstar driver. I highly recommend that you run the highest level drivers when doing SAN tape unless IBM SAN Central specifically says a specific combination works best.
We dropped EMULEX LP8000s and went with QLOGIC QLA2200F on our NT servers because we use ESS (Shark) and Qlogic was the only one supported on both. But, that has problems as well that we are working through with IBM. However, we are running very successfully on Windows 2000 so long as we do not try to do ESS Microcode updates with Windows 2000 servers up. But, that problem is going to be fixed shortly. I made the comment because I know that IBM required specific driver levels for it to work, though others at higher levels may also work. Good Luck. -----Original Message----- From: Gloeer, Kirsten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup NT Server via SAN with Emulex LP8000 Requires EMULEX specific EMULEX driver levels or NT driver levels? Which driver level do you have installed? Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 3:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup NT Server via SAN with Emulex LP8000 EMULEX requires specific driver levels on NT, the latest ones. Otherwise, it will not work. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup NT Server via SAN with Emulex LP8000 Could you describe your layout abit: ie: - TSM Server connected to the SAN via Fibre and TCP/IP connection to LAN - 3494 library connected directly to the SAN via Fibre (or connected via SCSI to TSM Server) - NT4 Server(s) connected to SAN via Fibre and TCP/IP connection to LAN On the Win4 server can you see the SAN attached drives and access them? Can the current (LAN path) client access the TSM server (manual backup from desktop) and can the TSM GUI see all the SAN drives (mappings - should be the same when viewing mappings through explorer) Joe -----Original Message----- From: Gloeer, Kirsten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup NT Server via SAN with Emulex LP8000 We use this fibre card with WinNT 4 SL6. I tried to use NTutil but without success. Any hints? Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup NT Server via SAN with Emulex LP8000 I am using this fibre card for both windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 ADV svr (connected to a SAN). There are different drivers for Win2000 (but win2000 picks up the LP8000 - you need to change this - use update driver and tell it to use Windows update). You also require a different client to backup directly to tape (LAN FREE) (see SAN storage agent guide), however if this path is not found it will use the LAN path to get to the diskpools. Not sure about the RS/6000, but if it is attached to the SAN with your library then why not?! Server - Windows2000 TSM v4.2.1.6 Joe -----Original Message----- From: Gloeer, Kirsten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 6:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup NT Server via SAN with Emulex LP8000 Hi, We have problems to backup a NT Server via SAN with an Emulex LP8000 adapter to a 3494 library with 3590E1A tape drives. Has anyone tried this? It is possible to access disks from the NT server via SAN and it is possible to access the 3590E1A drives via an RS/6000. Best regards, Kirsten Gl�er Commerzbank AG ZIT P 5.22 Mainzer Landstr. 151 60327 Frankfurt Tel.: 069/136-22505 Fax: 069/136-25059
