McDATA 3000 manual Configuring Tape Device Extension, Setup Prior to Edge Configuration

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Configuring Tape Device

Extension

This chapter contains the procedures for configuring your UltraNet

Edge 3000 for Tape Device Extension over an Ethernet WAN using

McDATA’s UltraNet ConfigManager configuration tool.

FC/SCSI Tape Device Extension is a per port function. The same port of an Edge 3000 cannot be used for both FC/SCSI tape Pipelining and E_port functions. Edge release 3.1.2. allows the same chassis (in a mixed configuration) to provide E_port services on one port and FC/SCSI Tape Pipelining on a different port. For a description of the supported configurations, refer to Chapter 2, Hardware Configurations in this guide.

Throughout the remainder of this chapter, Tape Device Extension is referred to as “FC/SCSI Tape Pipelining”.

Setup Prior to Edge Configuration

Prior to configuring the UltraNet Edge 3000, you should be familiar with Fibre Channel, Ethernet 10/100, Gigabit Ethernet, and SCSI networking principles.

Before using UltraNet ConfigManager to configure the UltraNet Edge 3000, the Fibre Channel switch(es) may require zoning. See the “Required Fibre Channel Switch Zoning” section on page -4 to determine if this is necessary for your network configuration.

You will need to gather the IP addresses prior to configuring an

Ethernet WAN for your UltraNet Edge 3000 (see the “Gathering the

IP Addresses” section).

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