{"id":884,"date":"2012-03-08T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-12-09T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:07:55","slug":"drive-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/drive-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A topic I always receive mails for: Which license is needed for drives when a FC library is used for the backup in a Windows \/ Linux environment and the drive is attached to one (1!) server only? The answer is simple: As long as the drives are not shared by more than 1 server and the feature &#8220;Multipath device&#8221; is not used for the drives in Data Protector, then you can stay with the much more cheaper Windows drive license. In this case this Point to Point connection is not counted as SAN, even if you are connect the library to a SAN switch instead using arbitrated loop.<\/p>\n<p>{:en}<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the QuickSpecs<\/p>\n<p>In case that multiple systems access the drive in a SAN, the drive extension for UNIX, NAS, SAN (B6953AA) is required. A Fiber Channel point-to-point connection is not considered a SAN.<\/p>\n<p>All the details can be read here: <a href=\"http:\/\/h18004.www1.hp.com\/products\/quickspecs\/11671_div\/11671_div.HTML\">http:\/\/h18004.www1.hp.com\/products\/quickspecs\/11671_div\/11671_div.HTML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Christian vanHaut, he requested the official answer from HP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A topic I always receive mails for: Which license is needed for drives when a FC library is used for the backup in a Windows \/ Linux environment and the drive is attached to one (1!) server only? The answer is simple: As long as the drives are not shared by more than 1 server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","de"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28cjj-eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/disable-device-polling\/","url_meta":{"origin":884,"position":0},"title":"Disable Device Polling","date":"31. 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In general there is noch change to adopt this for Windows 2012 and the registry keys are the same. However, a requirement is to activate \"Target Persistent Binding\" for the Fibre Channel HBA. In case of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":87,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/was-ist-eigentlich-device-polling\/","url_meta":{"origin":884,"position":2},"title":"What is device polling","date":"31. December 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"{:de}Bestimmt jeder Data Protector Kunde mit einer Fibre Channel Tape Library hat dieses Problem schon mal wissentlich oder unwissentlich erlebt: ein SCSI Reset w\u00e4hrend einer Sicherung... und das ganze Band ist zerst\u00f6rt. Was war passiert? Das Bandlaufwerk wurde mit\u00a0SCSI Kommandos \u00fcbersch\u00fcttet - das nennt man auch Device Polling. 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