topic Re: autopath and tacma in HPE EVA Storage

autopath and tacma

Jannik — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:09:56 GMT

The new version of securepath is called autopath is this product able to handel disks from HDS Tacma storage?

Re: autopath and tacma

Uwe Zessin — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:22:47 GMT

It's rather the other way:

HP's multipath solution was called AutoPath.
Compaq's multipath solution was called Secure Path.

These days, the AutoPath driver as been put under the "Secure Path" umbrella.

Re: autopath and tacma

Jannik — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:58:58 GMT

yes you might be right.
But that did not help me :-)

Re: autopath and tacma

Zinky — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:38:20 GMT

Jannik,

The HP Tagamastore Storage (not Tacma!) is exactly the same High End frame sold as the HP XP12000 or 10000.

HP's SecurePath for Active/Active Arrays (aka Autopath) may actually work with Tagmastore arrays since the ID's used for the various LUN configs is exactly the same between the HP and the Hitachi flavours. (i.e. OPEN-V, OPEN=L, OPEN-9..)

But you will be better off instead to simply use MPIO or VxVM DMP for ALL your Active/Active Arrays. Also DMP and AutoPath simply would not co-exist as we've found out in the past.