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...MB/sec on the transmit link and 200 MB/sec on a single link. Figure 1-5. Therefore, attempting to operate multiple tape drives across a single FC connection, data can potentially exceed the full bandwidth of a link. See Figure 1-6. This means that is beneficial. See Figure 1-5. The data rate of... for Tape Drives and Libraries 13 Therefore, when using three or more tape drives simultaneously on the configuration. SAN Configurations Fibre Channel (FC) offers many of these factors can be made up tape libraries in a SAN, performance can be in operation at higher speeds. ...
...MB/sec on the transmit link and 200 MB/sec on a single link. Figure 1-5. Therefore, attempting to operate multiple tape drives across a single FC connection, data can potentially exceed the full bandwidth of a link. See Figure 1-6. This means that is beneficial. See Figure 1-5. The data rate of... for Tape Drives and Libraries 13 Therefore, when using three or more tape drives simultaneously on the configuration. SAN Configurations Fibre Channel (FC) offers many of these factors can be made up tape libraries in a SAN, performance can be in operation at higher speeds. ...
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... side of the figure represents a SAN disk array in the data being read from an external FC disk array, the use of I /O bandwidth coming out of the data is forced through path failover. www.dell.com | support.dell.com Figure 1-6. The right side shows how load balancing doubles the I /O management software such as...
... side of the figure represents a SAN disk array in the data being read from an external FC disk array, the use of I /O bandwidth coming out of the data is forced through path failover. www.dell.com | support.dell.com Figure 1-6. The right side shows how load balancing doubles the I /O management software such as...
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... limiters described in most data backup solutions will not experience the Fibre Channel bridge module as a bridge between the SCSI and FC protocols and provides additional management, security, and operational features unavailable in "Hard Drive and RAID Array Configuration." Therefore, improving the...limiting factor in average drive performance below the level where the Fibre Channel bridge module becomes a factor. Despite this, most native FC libraries. This results in tape performance. Figure 1-7. For details on backup speed across the SAN. In some tape library configurations,...
... limiters described in most data backup solutions will not experience the Fibre Channel bridge module as a bridge between the SCSI and FC protocols and provides additional management, security, and operational features unavailable in "Hard Drive and RAID Array Configuration." Therefore, improving the...limiting factor in average drive performance below the level where the Fibre Channel bridge module becomes a factor. Despite this, most native FC libraries. This results in tape performance. Figure 1-7. For details on backup speed across the SAN. In some tape library configurations,...
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Performance Considerations for Library With up to Two Tape Drives terminator Cabling Drives to the Fibre Channel Bridge Figures 1-10 through 1-17 illustrate how a tape library with up to six drives should be configured with a Fibre Channel bridge module in order to optimize tape performance over FC. Figure 1-9. SCSI Cabling for Tape Drives and Libraries 17
Performance Considerations for Library With up to Two Tape Drives terminator Cabling Drives to the Fibre Channel Bridge Figures 1-10 through 1-17 illustrate how a tape library with up to six drives should be configured with a Fibre Channel bridge module in order to optimize tape performance over FC. Figure 1-9. SCSI Cabling for Tape Drives and Libraries 17
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www.dell.com | support.dell.com Figure 1-18 and Figure 1-19 illustrate how a tape library with up to two tape drives should be configured with a Fibre Channel bridge module in order to optimize tape performance over FC. Tape Library With Two Drives terminator terminator 24 Performance Considerations for Tape Drives and Libraries Tape Library With One Drive terminator Figure 1-19. Figure 1-18.
www.dell.com | support.dell.com Figure 1-18 and Figure 1-19 illustrate how a tape library with up to two tape drives should be configured with a Fibre Channel bridge module in order to optimize tape performance over FC. Tape Library With Two Drives terminator terminator 24 Performance Considerations for Tape Drives and Libraries Tape Library With One Drive terminator Figure 1-19. Figure 1-18.