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  3. November 2013

Fibre Channel Tape Sharing on Guest Partition

Hi All

I am currently building a guest partition on a 720 and have been asked if
it is possible to share the fibre channel attached tape library somehow
with the guest. The hosting hardware only has a single fibre channel card,
at this point in time.

I know that the baked in tape virtualisation will share tape drives but not
libraries over virtual scsi so I am not expecting the library to show up
there (but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did...)

Apart from moving the card between partitions as required is there any
other way of sharing or virtualising the fibre channel connected library to
the guest using the existing hardware ?

In case it mattes the card is a two port 8 Gigabit card feature code 577D.
Both Guest and host partitions are running V7R1 TR7.

If the answer is just to get another card please feel free to point this
out.

Thanks


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