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Chapter 41 Configuring FCIP
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amount of data has been buffered at the local Cisco MDS switch, the read operations to the tape drive
are flow controlled by the remote Cisco MDS switch by not issuing any further reads. On completion of
a read operation, when some data buffers are freed, the remote Cisco MDS switch resumes issuing reads.
The default flow control buffering uses the automatic option. This option takes the WAN latencies and
the speed of the tape into account to provide optimum performance. You can also specify a flow control
buffer size (the maximum buffer size is 12 MB).
Tip We recommend that you use the default option for flow-control buffering.
Do not enable time-stamp control on an FCIP interface with tape acceleration configured.
Tip
Note If one end of the FCIP tunnel is running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.0(1) or later and NX-OS, and
the other end is running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x, and tape acceleration is enabled, then the
FCIP tunnel will run only tape write acceleration, not tape-read acceleration.
Tape Library LUN Mapping for FCIP Tape Acceleration
If a tape library provides logical unit (LU) mapping and FCIP tape acceleration is enabled, you must
assign a unique LU number (LUN) to each physical tape drive accessible through a target port.
Figure 41-16
provides LUN mapping, then all the four tape drives should be assign unique LUNs.
Figure 41-16
Host 1
Host 2
For the mappings described in
Host 2 has access to Drive 3 and Drive 4.
Table 41-1
OL-18084-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
shows tape drives connected to Switch 2 through a single target port. If the tape library
FCIP LUN Mapping Example
FCIP link
Switch 1
Table 41-1
describes correct tape library LUN mapping.
Tape library
Drive 1
Switch 2
Drive 2
Drive 3
Drive 4
and Table 41-2, Host 1 has access to Drive 1 and Drive 2, and
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