I have a TS3200 LTO4 Tape Library (3573). It has dual tape drives in it (a 4U configuration)
It looks like each Tape Drive has 2 fibre ports.
Currently one port for each Tape Drive is directly attached to a Power6 IBMi system using a couple 2844 IOP's and 280D Fibre controller cards (Note: No fibre switch is being used)
I want to attach a second IBMi, a Power7 system, to the TS3200 via a couple 5735 Fibre Channel Adaptor cards connected through a generic Fibre Switch.
My intent is to plug the 2nd fiber ports for each tape drive into the fibre switch along with the 2 5735 interface cards with the hope that the Power7 system will be able to access the tape drives that way. I was also hoping that I could then toggle the tape drives between the two IBMi systems.
Do you think this is possible? I haven't been able to find any documentation describing this kind of configuration.
Reply or Forwarded mail from: Kenneth E Graap
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