Fibre Channel Requirements; Figure 8 Fibre Channel Topology (Ln Port) - Qualstar Q48 Installation And Operation Manual

Q24/Q48 Tape Library
NOTE
A SAS tape drive is identified by a unique identifier called a World Wide Name (WWN) or World Wide
Identifier (WWID). The library assigns the WWID to the drive bay. When a tape drive is replaced, the
WWID is re-assigned to the new tape drive.
The operating system tracks the WWID for the tape drive on each HBA channel. Each of the drive
connectors on the fan-out cable is associated with an HBA channel. Once a tape drive has been plugged
in, it should remain on the same channel to retain the association between the HBA channel and
WWID.
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Fibre Channel Requirements

Fibre Channel (FC) allows an active intelligent interconnection scheme, called a Fabric , to connect
devices. Everything between the ports on FC is called the Fabric. The Fabric is most often a switch or
series of switches that takes the responsibility for routing.
LN Port (default setting) – an automatic configuration that tries arbitrated loop first, then switched
The library allows the selection of the following Fibre Channel port behaviors:
Fabric.
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 The library has a mini-SAS connector on each SAS tape drive.
Mini-SAS connectors are keyed.

Figure 8 Fibre Channel topology (LN Port)

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