Take a look at the Inrange Solution for Dense Wave Multiplexing. -----Original Message----- From: Varney, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite Fibre Channel Tape Drives
Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with running Fibre Channel attached TSM tape drives over long distances using any kind of channel extension. Specifically, we are looking at TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 with STK 9310 Libraries and 9840 fiber attached drives, but experience with any environment would be helpful. We would be using Brocade switches to connect the local TSM servers to the local tape drives in a SAN fabric, then connecting some kind of channel extenders (we're looking at CNT, but it could be FC over IP, etc) to the switches to extend the FC fabric to another site. At the alternate site, we would have an identical setup. The idea would be to either implement Gresham's EDT DistribuTAPE to enable library sharing across sites, or have each TSM server talk to both onsite and offsite libraries (with dedicated drives instead of library sharing). Any information or advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Patrick Varney Pacific Gas and Electric Company Fairfield Information Operations Center (FFIOC) Enterprise Services Group (ESG), Senior Network Specialist * internal 8-227-2823 * external 707-436-2823 * pager 707-288-1513