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In the first SAN fabric, the client currently has 160 GB of disk space. This space
is projected to grow to 630 GB in the near future. In the second SAN fabric, the
client has 100 GB of disk space.
5.1.2 The solution
Our solution has the following new components:
IBM System p™ server for Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM 3583-L72 tape library with four Fibre Channel (FC) drives
IBM TotalStorage SAN32B-2 switch for the backup environment
IBM TotalStorage SAN16B-R router, with FC-FC routing enabled
The following graphic shows the new backup environment (Figure 5-2).
Figure 5-2 New ...