60 SAN Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation
We connect each of the current fabrics, and the new backup switch, to the router
with two inter-fabric links (IFLs) for redundancy. The client provides the two long
wave fiber connections required between the computer center and the backup
site.
The Tivoli Storage Manager server will use its internal disks for both Tivoli
Storage Manager databases and disk storage pools. Therefore, it does not need
any access to the existing client SAN fabrics. The tape drives are divided evenly
to the two Fibre Channel adapters in the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
We create a separate logical SAN (LSAN) zone for each server in any SAN fabric
that needs access to the tape drives. The LSAN will ...