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Dell PowerVault™ TL4000/TL2000 Failover Guide

Failover configuration

(one host with three dual port HBAs, and three SAS drives)

Main Path

Failover Path

Figure 9: Reference Configuration 9

Important Note: This configuration can be extended up to four drives provided the host system can

support four dual SAs HBAs.

Heterogeneous validated configurations

Heterogonous configurations have some limitations, if the configuration contains LT04 and LT05 drives,

the Library must contain only LT04 media for proper operations.

Important Note: Heterogeneous configurations containing LT03 drives are not supported

Failover Reference Configuration 10:

One host, one Fibre Channel switch and one PowerVault™ library configured with one LT04

Fibre Channel and one LT05 Fibre Channel drive

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 10

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