Re: Fiber Card - Mixing Disk and Tape OK? -- MIDRANGE-L

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It has been a golden rule of SAN's (And not only on IBM i) that you DON'T
mix Disk and Tape traffic on the same HBA. I would be surprised if this
changes in Power8. What i've seen done is using one port of an HBA for Tape
and the other for Disk (i've had good results doing it that way) but i'm
not sure if that is 100% supported.
Best Regards,

Roberto

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since the Power8's have limited cards slots ( no card expansions ), I was
wondering best practice when it come to using fiber cards with both disk
and tape attached.

#1 Can you mix Disk and Tape on the same fiber card?
#2 If you can should you or shouldn't do it?

Thanks
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Kirk
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