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

[DaveFroble]

richard.l.dyson at gmail.com wrote:
> 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

You can boot the distribution media.  Put in the CD/DVD and boot it.  Should be 
enough to restore a system disk.

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