Re: Fibre Channel Tape Sharing on Guest Partition

Evan,

If you get another fibre card, you'll need a Fibre SAN switch as well.
Card
cheap, switch, not so much unless you already have one.
You are correct the library will not show up on the hosted partition, I
have
had no luck getting the drive to show up either although I believe it's
supposed to. The tape device and optical in the CEC, show up no sweat.

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Jim

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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Regards
Evan Harris
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