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Apple Fibre Channel Integration

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• ConnectthetapedrivesopticalcablestotheserverFibreChannelcardportsortheswitchports.

• Congureallportconnectionstotheircorrectsettingswiththeirsoftwareorotherport

managementutilities.

• ConnecttheTandbergDatatapelibrarytoa10/100EthernetnetworkforthelibraryRemote

Managementfeature.

• ConnectapowercordtothetapeLibrary.Anuninterruptiblepowersupply(UPS)isrecommended.

• PowercycletheFibreChannelswitchifapplicable.Powercyclealltapestoragedevices.

Powercyclethehostserver.ThiscorrectlyallowstheFiberChannellayerandhosttoinitialize

communicationstoalldevices.

Common Supported Fibre Channel Conﬁgurations

TAPE LIBRARY CONFIGURATION DIRECTLY ATTACHED TO THE HOST SERVER (NO SWITCH)

Support For:

• StorageLibraryT24withoneor2LTOTapeDrives

2Gb/s

Fibre Channel

Card

SFP

Transceivers

Optical

Cable’s

Xserve

Xserve RAID

Copper

Cable’s

Tandberg Data

StorageLibrary T24

Fibre ChAnnel direCt AttAChed

Solution Topology:

• TapeDrivesconnectdirectlytotheServerusinganAppleFibreChannelCard.

• ApplemultiportFibreChannelCardsmaybeusedtosupportanXserveRAID.

Purpose:

• ThisarchitectureprovidesasolutionforaLibrarywithoneortwoTapeDrive’s.Thiswouldbe

typicalfora

smallXservehostwithoptionalXserveRAIDandatapeLibraryaltogetherrequiring

4F/Cports,2fortheRAIDand2fortheTapeLibraryifusing2tapedrives.Exampleshowsthe

AppleDualportFibreChannelCardandonetapedrive.

Checklist:

• InstallonedualportFibreChanneladapterintheserverforthelibrarytapedrives.

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