topic Re: Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive in Operating System - HP-UX

Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive

Lucy2009_1 — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:08:33 GMT

Hi,
We have Integrity server rx6600 and blades (BL860c) running hpux 11.23. They don't have internal tape drives nor SCSI adapters. They have Fiber Channel ports, which are connected to Data Protector backup tape library.

I have created a Ignite recovery tape using the tape library. Can the system boot from this tape via FC connection? Since it is a production environment, I cannot test.

Also, for the BL860c blade, there is a connector in the front for a dongle with 2 USB
connections and 1 monitor connectin. I tried to use the USB connection for a CD drive. But the system could not mount it. If the mount
works,Can one use CD/DVD drive to create Ignite recovery image and boot from it? What is a good way to create Ignite media for thes
machines without local tape drive?

Thanks,

IDT

Re: Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:23:39 GMT

Hi:

See:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-3336/index.html

...particularly chapter-12...and also:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-4825/5992-4825.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive

Tim Nelson — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:29:03 GMT

Another choice is to make one of the servers an ignite server.

run make_net_recovery to the ignite server then make_tape_recovery of the ignite server to a real tape and a regular basis.

Now that still does not mean your FC attached tape is supported as a boot device but all the other servers will have no issue booting from the ignite server.

Re: Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive

Torsten. — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:29:45 GMT

You can use a fc connected drive to store te backup, but you need to boot from CD (vMedia) in order to be able to find the tape device while booting.

Better solution would be an ignite server and backup over the network.

Re: Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive

Lucy2009_1 — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:45:44 GMT

Thanks everyone for your answers. I just want to say that we want to make Ignite
recovery media for disaster recovery. We have
Ignite server with all the net images already. In the case without network, we'd like to recover the OS asap that's why tape
or CD/DVD is considered.

IDT

Re: Can Ignite use FC connected tape drive

Lucy2009_1 — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:13 GMT

Thanks. I got the answer.

Lynn