Re: [Veritas-bu] Scalar i2000 FC question

2009-10-01 Thread smpt
Of william.d.br...@gsk.com Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:17 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Scalar i2000 FC question I can only comment on the library *with* the IO blades as that is how we've always run it. So I really cannot say if the claims about the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scalar i2000 FC question

2009-09-30 Thread william . d . brown
I can only comment on the library *with* the IO blades as that is how we've always run it. So I really cannot say if the claims about the speed buffering to even out data rates to the drives stack up. Nor can I say if they are a bottleneck, though we are about to use 4 x LTO4 on each 4Gb blad

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scalar i2000 FC question

2009-09-30 Thread smpt
Hi to all, May I ask if there is any significant benefit of using I/O blades or it is just marketing? As I remember you can not put more than two LTO4 drives to the blades. Ok, you can but if you feed your drives with full speed . -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Scalar i2000 FC question

2009-09-28 Thread Wheeler, Gideon
Hi, No cross blade routing is allowed So the masking will only work within each blade. This doesn't prevent you from presenting 4 tapes drives down 1 FC port. To present more tape drives to a host you need to zone them in at the switch side. What version of the firmware are you using ? Hope this h