topic Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40549#M2806 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the link. So all I have to do is create the zoning and the netapp will pickup the tape drive / media changer just as it would be directly attached? Or do I need to map the WWNN / WWPN in the /etc/rc file?</P><P></P><P>Best Regards,</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 May 2011 08:47:12 GMT oweinmann 2011-05-07T08:47:12Z FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40535#M2804 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Dear All,</P><P></P><P>we recently purchased a new FAS 2040c and a IBM TS3100 with two LTO5 drives. Sadly the 2040c only has 2 FC Ports on each filer. A shame compared to our good old 3020c where we had 4. <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.0.8/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>Today I was wondering if it is possible to attach the LTO drives to our FC switch and make them visible/accessible to the filers via zoning? At the moment I configured 0a as Initiatior Port and directly attached one LTO5 to each filer. Doing so, I have no real redundancy. I can only attach to one FC Switch. If something bad happens to the switch we can no longer access the data. <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="sad" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.0.8/images/emoticons/sad.gif"></SPAN> Bad thing. </P><P></P><P>Is it possible to attach the FC tape drives to the FC switch and zone them to the netapp filer?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:55:15 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40535#M2804 oweinmann 2025-06-05T06:55:15Z Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40540#M2805 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>Yes.&nbsp; This is supported.&nbsp; Here is the OSN link </SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.netapp.com/us/technology/osn/osn.html" target="_blank">http://www.netapp.com/us/technology/osn/osn.html</A></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:33 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40540#M2805 scottgelb 2011-05-07T00:00:33Z Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40549#M2806 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the link. So all I have to do is create the zoning and the netapp will pickup the tape drive / media changer just as it would be directly attached? Or do I need to map the WWNN / WWPN in the /etc/rc file?</P><P></P><P>Best Regards,</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 May 2011 08:47:12 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40549#M2806 oweinmann 2011-05-07T08:47:12Z Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40553#M2807 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No explicit configuration on NetApp side is required. You may need to configure library to allow access from NetApp though.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 May 2011 08:50:07 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40553#M2807 aborzenkov 2011-05-07T08:50:07Z Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40558#M2808 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Best practice is a zone per initiator port.. So 2 zones in yur example. </P><P></P><P>Typos Sent on Blackberry Wireless</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 07 May 2011 10:25:37 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40558#M2808 scottgelb 2011-05-07T10:25:37Z FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40563#M2809 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Just to confirm I have two FC ports on the 2040c</P><P></P><P>0a is configured as initiator</P><P>0b is configured as target</P><P></P><P>We have two FC Fabrics FabA and FabB. What I would like to achieve is to connect 0a to FabA and 0b to FabB. To do this I have to reconfigure 0a as a target port. But If I do this I can no longer access the Tape Drive that is now connected to the switch?</P><P></P><P>If I get this right only a target port can connect to the tape drive?</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Oliver</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:56:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40563#M2809 oweinmann 2011-07-04T06:56:13Z Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40568#M2810 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Tape drives connect via fc initiator ports. </P><P></P><P>Typos Sent on Blackberry Wireless</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:35:47 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40568#M2810 scottgelb 2011-07-04T15:35:47Z Re: FC Tape drive connected to FC switch https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40572#M2811 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thought so. I guess we have to reconfigure the systems with two FC cards and connect them to both Fabs.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:28:21 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FC-Tape-drive-connected-to-FC-switch/m-p/40572#M2811 oweinmann 2011-07-05T07:28:21Z