Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-19 Thread robert_clark
Hi George, The udev config files used by Lin_tape allow for tieing specific device names to attributes of the tape drives like their serial number, or perhaps LUN number. I was a bit surprised to see that all EMC EDL devices assigned to a given path are presented all on the same WWNN, differi

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-19 Thread Hart, Charles A
, October 19, 2010 8:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance The zoning process simply associates a server HBA port on the server with the HBA port on the disk device. Persistent binding is a function of the OS and HBA drivers on the server

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-19 Thread Strand, Neil B.
Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles A Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance This may be a dumb response but this behavior is similar in Windows and or Solaris, I thou

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-19 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
isit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: giblackwood To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 10/18/2010 04:33 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Mr Forray, I know a lot about this problem you are dealing with. My name is George Blackwoo

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-18 Thread Hart, Charles A
Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of giblackwood Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 1:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance Mr Forray, I know a lot about this problem you are dealing with. My name is George Blackwood. I was a Systems

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-08 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
AC/VCU Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 12:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance Sergio, Thanks for the experience/guidance/details. Looks like we may be heading in this direction, although we aren't sure why. To update our situation

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-08 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
ergio O. Fuentes" To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/27/2010 01:43 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" I'm doing this work right now for a big project here. My first endeavor into Linux. The lin_tape drivers for 6.

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-10-04 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
1026 Sep 27 11:43 /dev/IBMtape2n #ls -l /dev/lin_tape total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 27 11:43 IBMchanger137B -> ../IBMchanger0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 27 11:43 IBMchanger138A -> ../IBMchanger1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 27 11:43 IBMtape137 -> ../IBMtape2 lrwxrw

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-09-27 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
t1 root 250, 1026 Sep 27 11:43 /dev/IBMtape2n #ls -l /dev/lin_tape total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 27 11:43 IBMchanger137B -> ../IBMchanger0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 27 11:43 IBMchanger138A -> ../IBMchanger1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 27 11:43 IBMtape137 -> ../IBMt

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-09-23 Thread Strand, Neil B.
magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance I have mentioned in previous posts that we are

Re: Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-09-22 Thread robert_clark
There is a "by-id" section in the IBM Tape device driver installation and user guide (for LTO). Looks like it hooks into the RHEL udev stuff. I would personally try to find the same guide for TS1120 and send you a link, but I'm fighting an EDL problem at the moment. Thanks, [RC] On Sep 22, 2

Looking for SAN/tape experts assistance

2010-09-22 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have mentioned in previous posts that we are putting up 2-new RH Linux based TSM server . These are the first of my existing 5-Linux servers to use EMC SAN storage. With every new adventure, we get new problems. This one is driving everyone crazy and hope someone out there can point us in the r