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Morcos
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Hello,

If I want to do a hardware scan on a MSL 6060 (Connected through fiber), can I use LTT (storage works library and tape tools) on my laptop to run the utility?
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Ziad
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Steven Clementi
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Re: LTT

No, since... well... I have been looking for a fibre pcmcia card for ages, but they do not seem to make any or I haven't found any.


You CAN, if you have a docking bay with an expansion slot in it that you can put a fibre hba into and connect to the SAN.

I am almost sure the utility does not offer any passthrough service that wold allow you to talke to a server over the LAN that is connected to the SAN, but I could be wrong.

Steven
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Richard Bickers
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Re: LTT

Just to follow up on Steven's point, LTT can find any devices that the system can see via one of the SCSI based interfaces - that's SCSI, FC, USB, iSCSI and SAS (coming soon). It can't access FC devices over the LAN for instance.

I was going to say 'yes' to your question but I didn't know if there was a FC-PCMCIA card. It sounds like there isn't.

You can install LTT on any server that can see your FC drive. It's a safe install but if you really don't want to do that you can also run LTT direct from a CD without installing at all though that's only available on Windows. What OS do your servers run?

If you have Windows and want to create a run-from CD then just install it normally on any Windows server and then copy the install directory to the CD. LTT will recognise that it's being run from a CD and not write anything into your system - apart from a temp directory which it will ask you for. No registry entries.

Hope some of this helps.

Richard (LTT)

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Morcos
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Re: LTT

thx guys for your answers.