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Low-End Netapp Compatilbe LTO Tape Library.
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| Osopolare 2005-05-26, 5:51 pm |
| I have several Netapps that I currently back up with a Certance LTO
Library and Bakbone software.
The trouble is that the Certance and Netapp R200 are not compatible for
direct attached SCSI, so all of my data has to go over the network to
the backup host and then to Tape. Yuck.
Does anyone know of a low end Library, let's say 8-12 slots (LTO
preferably) that is supported by Netapp?
Thanks for your help.
-Zak Brown
Idealab
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| Faeandar 2005-05-26, 8:46 pm |
| On 26 May 2005 15:37:41 -0700, "Osopolare" <osopolare@gmail.com>
wrote:
>I have several Netapps that I currently back up with a Certance LTO
>Library and Bakbone software.
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>The trouble is that the Certance and Netapp R200 are not compatible for
>direct attached SCSI, so all of my data has to go over the network to
>the backup host and then to Tape. Yuck.
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>Does anyone know of a low end Library, let's say 8-12 slots (LTO
>preferably) that is supported by Netapp?
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>Thanks for your help.
>
>-Zak Brown
>Idealab
2 things about this:
1) why does it matter unless the netapp is the robotic controller?
and if it is you should change that.
2) instead of buying a new library just buy an fc tape card for the
R200. The LTO's are native fiber and you can just plug into the
drives.
On further rumination, are you saying the Certance LTO drives are not
compatible? Not the library?
~F
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| On Fri, 27 May 2005 01:52:08 GMT, Faeandar wrote:
>On 26 May 2005 15:37:41 -0700, "Osopolare" wrote:
<snip>
I have used ADIC Scalar 100's recently, and they work just fine.
NetApp say that any library conforming to SCSI standard will be
supported.
The same is not true for FC libraries.
[vbcol=seagreen]
>1) why does it matter unless the netapp is the robotic controller?
>and if it is you should change that.
I've been there before and unfortunately, it does matter, even though
the NetApp device is not controlling the robot.
In my case it was a NetApp FAS940 and an Overland NEO4000 (with LTO-2
drives) that didn't like each other. It took a lot of finger pointing
between NetApp, Overland and Tivoli (s/w was TSM) before eventually
finding a firmware upgrade from Overland to fix the problem.
Unfortunately, I can't recall if the f/w was upgraded on the library
or the drives.
NetApp have a certification matrix listing all their supported tape
and library configurations. I strongly recommend staying with that
list.
http://www.netapp.com/solutions/dat...on_devices.html
>2) instead of buying a new library just buy an fc tape card for the
>R200. The LTO's are native fiber and you can just plug into the
>drives.
All LTO-3 drives are native fibre. You can get SCSI-based LTO-2
drives.
Hope this is useful.
HVB.
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