[Info-vax] Direct FC connection between IA64/OpenVMS and HP 1/8 Tape Loader with LTO-5?

[richard.l.dyson at gmail.com]

On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 2:50:05 PM UTC-6, Eberhard Heuser wrote:
> Am 25.02.2018 um 21:37 schrieb richard.l.dyson--- via Info-vax:
> > I had a couple of these HP autoloader tape libraries connected to my rx2660 and rx3600 IA64/OpenVMS v8.1-1H1 servers.  But in their 2nd life, we don't have any SAN switches available so I assumed I could simply direct connect a tape library to one of the pair of HBAs I have in each server.
> >
> > They just generate errors on the FBx0 device and an error when trying to use Sysman IO Autoconfig.
> >
> > I even tried swapping the two FC fibers on one end to swap TX & RX (cross-over?)
> > No joy!
> >
> > Does anyone else have any suggestions?  Previously, a SAN storage team with lots of money and expertise set everything up for me and just made the libraries and EMC storage appear, so I'm out of scope for knowledge.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
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> OpenVMS needs a SAN switch, all other configurations do not work.
> Eberhard
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Eberhard,

Thanks for the (bad) news.  Knowing is better than banging my head on a brick
wall...

This new site wants me to use their Linux-based storage, maybe CIFS/SMB or NFS
but I'm not comfortable with that for backups.  I guess I will never be able to restore directly from the backup device since I will have to have a working VMS in order to access the remote backup save-sets...

But I guess it will be OK for user/data disks.

Rick