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

[Eberhard Heuser]

Am 26.02.2018 um 12:11 schrieb Jan-Erik Soderholm via Info-vax:
> 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.
>
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I can confirm that the FC-drivers are loaded with the installation DVD 
of OVMS-Itanium V8.4 and later.
Older versions might work, too.

Eberhard