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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-02-26 kl. 02:44, skrev 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.
> 

*If* the distribution CD/DVD loads drivers for the FC SAN storage.
I'm not sure.

We have a similar issue, but we have three VMS systems and they can
all access the backups from the other systems and all SAN disks. So
another system can be used to restore the system disk of a system.