To my way of thinking, if you have a single pathway (no matter how it "looks" to other environments), you'd like to keep the same type of traffic on that pathway and not mix disk and tape.
I'd keep tape and disk on separate physical adapters ... virtualize as much as you like, but separate the traffic behavior on different hardware. At least for now. ;-) Of course, I may be wrong. But unless there are features that negate the effect of the different behavior when it's virtualized, separate. Many thanks! Bruce T. >>> Bruce T. Harvey AIX Network Engineer PNC Bank @ Rivertech office 301-699-4013 facsimile 301-887-4070 mobile 443-465-1204 Mehdi Salehi <[email protected]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 09/14/10 09:35 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] Tape and disk traffic in FCoE Adapters Hi, It is always recommended to separate tape and disk traffic in TSM environments. How about when adapters are NPIV logical HBAs? Does it make sense to assign two logical adapters (one for disk and another for tape) from a single adapter port to an AIX partition? The adapter is an 8Gb/s FC or a 10Gb/s CNA. Thank you, Mehdi The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If you think you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do not forward or copy without permission of the sender. This message may contain an advertisement of a product or service and thus may constitute a commercial electronic mail message under US Law. The postal address for PNC is 249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. If you do not wish to receive any additional advertising or promotional messages from PNC at this e-mail address, click here to unsubscribe. https://pnc.p.delivery.net/m/u/pnc/uni/p.asp By unsubscribing to this message, you will be unsubscribed from all advertising or promotional messages from PNC. Removing your e-mail address from this mailing list will not affect your subscription to alerts, e-newsletters or account servicing e-mails.
