Query: Presenting tape Cartridge as a disk or network Drive

[ledvan]

Hi Guys,

we are using a  HPE MSL 6480 Tape library for our tape backups. we also use some software to transfer our archive data from a SSD Tier Disk storage(Network Drive) to NL-SAS Tier Disk torage(Network drive) as a archiving Means. i was wondering if there is a way to present the Tape cartridges through Tappe drive as Disk or a network drive to a server, so we can copy data from our SSD Toer to tape Tier Directly with that software.

i understand the Tape performance is slow, i just want to know if there is possibility of implementing this, or if anyone has the experience of doing so.


best regards,
Hirosh.

[ledvan]

guys any clue?

[NarayanKK-SO]

@ledvan

We can use the LTFS application to make use of the tapes as a regular storage device. Kindly check out the application link for more details.

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/product?language=en_US&kmpmoid=4249221&tab=driversAndSoftware - For download

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/product?language=en_US&kmpmoid=4249221&tab=manuals - For Manuals

Hope this helps

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