Tape -IPv6 Support for Tape Libraries

Asset ID:	1-71-1014077.1
Update Date:	2017-07-10
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Solution Type Technical Instruction Sure

Solution 1014077.1 : Tape -IPv6 Support for Tape Libraries

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek L1400 Tape Library - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek L700e Tape Library - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
All Platforms

Goal

Is Oracle/STK IPv6 compliant?
Is IPv6 compatible with libraries?
Will The STK 9330 And SL8500 Work Properly On IP Version 6 networks?

Solution

IPv6 = Internet Protocol Version 6 which is 128 bit addressing vs. the 32 bit addressing of today with IPv4.

Engineering does not plan to change the (L700 or 9310 TCP/IP) or other currently released Oracle/StorageTek libraries to be IPv6.

There is no IPv6 support on Oracle/StorageTek EOL products. No IPv6 on the SL500 and L-series libraries.

The SL150 does support IPv6 as of 2.01 code. (Aug 2015)

Support for IPv6 was provided in 7.01 release of SL8500 code. This code was released with Linux 2.6. Both IPv6 support and Linux 2.6 were removed in a subsequent release due to technical reasons. At this time we have no IPv6 support in SL8500 or SL3000.

SL8500 Release Notes FRS_7.01 introduces Product Enhancements as Added support for IPv6

But From FRS_7.07 to the current version 8.31 release notes include following

Issue: IPv6 addressing is not supported.

Work around: No work around at this time (Aug 2015)

SL3000 Release Notes FRS_3.00 introduces Product Enhancements as Support for IPv6

But From FRS_3.60 to the current version 4.31 release note include following

Issue: IPv6 addressing is not supported.

Work around: No work around at this time (Aug 2015)

Note: (Aug-4-2014, BM)

There are some recent updates on IPv6 SL3000 and SL8500 support, we do have support using a third party server.

Oracle has tested a recommended solution using a Tayga server, reference Tayga at www.litech.org/tayga. Additional testing is scheduled this year to supplement the Tayga setup instructions and will be made available to Oracle SL3000 and SL8500 library customers.

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