HP B6960-90078 Figure, SAN Environment Configuration

Configuring and Using Backup Devices

Shared Devices in the SAN Environment

Figure 2-6 SAN Environment Configuration

Because the library is attached to several systems that can access its drives directly, you need to configure as many drives on each host as you want to use from that host. In this case, all four physical drives are to be used from each host.

From a Data Protector perspective, the goal is as follows.

•On each host that is to share the library robotics, create a library robotics definition for each host. If there is only one host that is controlling the robotics, the library definition is created only for the default robotics control host.

•On each host that is to participate in sharing the same (tape) drives in the library:

✓ Create a device definition for each device to be used.

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