Dell PowerVault TL2000 Dell PowerVault TL4000 Failover Configuration Guide - Page 4

Dell PowerVault™ TL4000/TL2000 Failover Guide LT04 Configurations LT05 Configurations • Two homogeneous (Fibre Channel or SAS) • Two or more homogeneous (Fibre LTO4 full height drives in a single library Channel or SAS) LTO5 drives in a single partition library partition • Control path enabled on all drives in the • Control path enabled on all drives in the partition partition • Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows 2008 • Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows 2008, or Windows 2008 R2 installed in the host or Windows 2008 R2 installed on the host server server • Dell PowerVault™ TL4000 library device • Dell PowerVault™ TL4000\TL2000 library driver running on host server device driver running on host server • CommVault Galaxy 6.1 SP4 or later or • CommVault Galaxy 7.0 SP4 or later Commvault Simpana 7.0 SP4 or later installed in the host system installed in the host system • Failover activated via license key on the • Failover activated via license key on the Dell PowerVault™ TL4000 or TL2000 Dell PowerVault™ TL4000 library library • Shared Storage license applied to the • Shared Storage license applied to the CommVault backup application CommVault backup application Table 3: Failover Configuration Requirements Failover Support Configuration Details This section details the configuration requirements that must be meet in order to support failover using the Dell PowerVault™ TL2000 or TL4000 library. Important Note: Failover support is limited to the Dell PowerVault™ TL4000 when configured with LT04 drives. Configuration Samples Please refer to the following diagrams for cabling the supported failover configurations. The drive shown as the failover path does not need to be on standby (i.e. not in use) for failover to occur. Failover Reference Configuration 1: One host, one Fibre Channel switch and one Dell PowerVault™ library with two Fibre Channel drives In this configuration, failover occurs if one of the drives in the library fails (hardware failure or drive is disconnected from the Fibre Channel switch). The physical connection of this configuration is shown in Figure 1. Important Note: The Fibre Channel Drive Generation can be LT04 or LT05 4|Page 12/31/09 version 2.0 Always refer to www.dell.com\support for latest documentation and updates