Figure 4: Control path port failover example configuration
1. Primary data path
2. Standby data path
3. Host connection
4. Ultrium Dual Port Fibre Channel Tape Drives
5. Passive logical link to switch shares physical link
on drive #2
6. Active logical link to switch shares physical link
on drive #1
Technology for basic control path failover
Hewlett Packard Enterprise LTO-5 and LTO-6 Fibre Channel tape drives use a technology called N-Port
Identifier Virtualization (NPIV) which is defined as part of the Fibre Channel standards maintained by the
Technology for basic control path failover
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