Does anyone know if you can connect to two separate servers with the ATTO Dual Fibre Channel Cards?  We have two servers and I would like to be able to access them both simutaneously.

MacPro, Unity 5.1 and Unity 4.X servers.

No, it is not possible.

 Thanks Dom.

Its not Posible using the Fiber Manager (Application only looks at a single Channel), But it can be done.

I have a Backup Machine that has a FC-42XS connected to both Unity Server and with SAS Drives and Unix scripting to Auto Mount Partition for backup and umount when its done.

 It is possible to connect to two servers at the same time, but not quite the way you are thinking about doing it.

If you have Port Server going on one of those servers, use Ethernet to connect to that server and use Fibre to connect to the other server.

I have been trying to set up two servers with simultaneous Fibre connection from one client, but it's not been happening for me logistically. But it should be totally possible if you run the same FM version on both servers.

I was able to connect 2 Unity Server on a single machine at the same time via Fiber Optics.

If you guys are interested, ill be willing to help.

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briMestone

 Yes, please share.

Thanks!!

Install like you normally install an FC-42XS, then install Fiber Manager 5.1 (Better since it can connect to Older version of  Server).

Plug in both Fiber Cable (Server1 and Server2) to each port of the Fiber Card, Confirm all Drives from both Server are connected using the Atto Config Tool, (there should also be 2 FakeCom....)

Now the Unix Part of it all

#This is how you connect to the server without using the Fiber Manager Tool

Mount_Avidfs -U <account> -g GID VirtualName:$MOUNT /Volumes/$MOUNT

#Note, even if you dont use the Fiber Manager, Connected Unity Drives will Work just like Fiber Manager, All the Featues will work including Bin Locking etc etc etc. Also, once both Server are connected to the Machine, you CANT use both Fiber Manager and Administrator Tool, since both of those application would only look at a single Fiber Channel.

Now im not great in GUI coding nor an Xcode GURU, so here is something geeky that works for me.

##### 2 Unity Backup System Via Fiber By Ted Simbajon: t3ddy94123@yahoo.com #####

#!/bin/sh
SPACE1="Partition1"
SPACE2="Partition2"
SPACE3="Partition3"

LOOP=3
COUNT=0
rm STATUS.log
while [ $COUNT != $LOOP ]
 do
  COUNT=$((COUNT+1))
  MOUNT=$( eval echo \$SPACE${COUNT})
  MOUNT2=$MOUNT"_"
  mkdir /Volumes/$MOUNT
  mkdir /Volumes/$MOUNT2
  mount_Avidfs -U <account> -g GID VirtualName1:$MOUNT /Volumes/$MOUNT
  mount_Avidfs -U <account> -g GID VirtualName2:$MOUNT /Volumes/$MOUNT2
  chflags nouchg /Volumes/$MOUNT2/"Avid MediaFiles"
  rsync -avru --delete --progress /Volumes/$MOUNT/ /Volumes/$MOUNT2
  chflags uchg /Volumes/$MOUNT2/"Avid MediaFiles"
  du -hsx /Volumes/$MOUNT  >> STATUS.log
  du -hsx /Volumes/$MOUNT2 >> STATUS.log
  umount /Volumes/$MOUNT
  umount /Volumes/$MOUNT2
  rmdir /Volumes/$MOUNT
  rmdir /Volumes/$MOUNT2
  Sleep 5
done

mailx -s "STATUS REPORT" t3ddy94123@yahoo.com < STATUS.log

 Feel Free to ask questions

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Ted Simbajon

 Thanks much Ted!

I'll give it a try.

Just to confirm, we were able to do this as well, with Ted's help of course.

We did have to use a 42XS because as far as I know there are no drivers for the 3321 on a Mac. 

We're still in the process of getting it done on the PC--I'm sure we'll get there (now, with Ted's help), but just didn't have enough time to work it out today. 

It's actually quite groundbreaking for us.  Thanks, Ted.

~Hammer

[EDIT:  We were able to mount both workspaces (from seperate unity's) on Tiger when both unity's were 4.1.5.  When testing with 5.1 and 4.1.6, we weren't able to (quickly) get Tiger to work.  Although it may have worked with more fiddling, we just upgraded to Leopard and attempted both successfully.  Now this is so old-hat(), we want to do the ultimate test, which is actually what our client needs:  Two existing unity's going into one brand new.  ...a 42 XS and a 41 XS...connecting 3 at a time.  ]

Nice!!  make it happen....

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briMestone