My method of doing this was creating an IP per storage resource (tape 
libary)

  SDAddresses  = {
    ip = { addr = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX; port = 9103; }
  }

and creating a systemd resource for each storage daemon. Then the nodes 
share an IP
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 12:20:31 PM UTC GB wrote:

> Hi, I have a fibre channel multi drive tape libary and would like higher 
> avalability.
>
> the tape drives have an A and B fibre port
>
> I have two servers I can use as storage daemons for this single storage 
> resource
>
> server 1 is connected directly to the FC A ports on the drives
>
> server 2 is directly connected to the FC B ports on the drives
>
> What is the conventional way to do this setup?
>
>  Currently I am thinking of using pacemaker to have a floating IP between 
> the servers and a single storage daemon running
>
> On failover the current job will be cancelled but I dont see a way around 
> this - using a single virtual machine is not going to work with pcie 
> passthrough or host device passthrough with my hypervisor 
>
> I could set up the tape drives to be assesable over iscsi initators as 
> another way and put the storage daemons on the director VM but this seems 
> more compelx and risky.
>
> details on sharing tape over iscsi here
>
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives
>
> Anyone done a similar setup? any advice?
>

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