load balancing real fibre channel tapes

2014-10-17 Thread Lee, Gary
I have two dual port hbas per tsm server. Both servers are hp servers running RHEL 6.1. I would like to spread the i/o over all four FC ports. Is zoning the only way? Currently all our tape devices and the tsm servers run to one FC switch. We have 12 drives in our onsite library, and 12 in our

Re: load balancing real fibre channel tapes

2014-10-17 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
Assuming you are using IBM tape drives, see the IBM Tape Device Drivers Installation and Users Guide. The cut/past below is from the section on Dynamic Load Balancing. This works differently than disk multi-pathing. = The dynamic load