RE: Fibre Channel Tape Sharing on Guest Partition

Rob,

Each tape library can only be varied on at one partition at a time, but you
would not need to move the card at all.

With respect to VOIS, you can run a VIOS partition solely for the sake of
virtualizing the tape and other items like that and still run you IBM
partitions in native hardware or as Guest partitions to IBM i. Just because
you have VIOS does not mean you have to put everything there. I'm thinking
a long discussion with an technical architect with the appropriate
experience is in order. Your business partner has a couple of those guys
working for them and of course you can guess the multiple people on this
list might be in that category as well.

--
Jim

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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 7:10 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Fibre Channel Tape Sharing on Guest Partition

So, with VIOS, I could have one fiber card supporting multiple lpars, all
using the same card at the same time? I know that modern tape drives, with
modern attachments, often run faster than IBM i can drive them.
Assuming that the library has multiple drives (like ours does) at which
point can you start saying perhaps a second card is needed?

We will probably be going the VIOS route with our next hardware round
(probably 1Q 2014). We're just hoping to put it off until then.


Rob Berendt