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There may be a way to bypass VIOS with the latest TR but IDK. VIOS is not
the root of all evil. However, buying two cards may be an acceptable
alternative.
It's when you start adding other lpars and it get's to the point where you
need an expansion cabinet and ... and ...
Rob Berendt
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Dept 1600
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Not a VIOS shop.
During Monthend saves, both LPARS have BRMS full saves that are running
concurrently.
Paul
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Why separate FC cards? We have five lpars sharing the same FC card doing
backups at the same time.
Rob Berendt
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Competed the migration from LTO7 to Laservault/Exagrid VTL.
Running on a Power9-9009-42A, multiple I5/OS V7R3 LPARs using BRMS.
Production and R&D LPAR each have a EN0A PCIe3 16Gb 2-port Fiber Channel
Adapter connected to a Cisco 9148 Fiber Channel switch with 16gb ports.
The Cisco 9148 FC switch is zoned so each LPAR can see both the IBM 3573
LTO7 library and the LaserVault/Exagrid VTL.
The Laservault VITL is connected to a EX40000E-SEC Exagrid via redundant
Cisco Cataylist 9500 with 10gb ports.
At our DR site, connected via dedicated fiber, is a second EX40000E-SEC
Exagrid, for offsite replication.
All 50 full LTO7 volumes were successfully migrated to EX40000E-SEC
Exagrid using BRMS DUPMEDBRM, 902,337.62 GB total backup data.
This included 53 weeks of Production weekly saves, Production ME saves
back to 2004, R&D ME saves back to 2007.
EX40000E-SEC Exagrid retention space at 49%, with landing zone still set
at 50%.
Landing zone will now be reduced, 25% or possibly lower, to give more
space back to retention.
Everything was replicated to DR site, EX40000E-SEC Exagrid retention space
at 75%, with landing zone set to 0%.
Process took about 3 months, doing two full LTO7 volumes at a time, (3
would fill up the landing zone).
Each process took about 48 hours, 24 hours for DUPMEDBRM, 600mb/s ,
followed by a 2nd 24 hours for the DEDUP process, 900mb/s.
DEDDUP ratios for the migrated volumes reached as high as 400:1.
The key to the high DEDUP ratios was to minimize the number of files
Laservault presents to the Exagrid.
This was accomplished by setting the Laservault number of files from 8 to
1.
Current Production daily full BRMS save, 1 hour using 2 drives, 1,200mb/s,
3,000gb total backup data, followed by a 2 hour DEDUP, 900mb/s, ratio
averaging 100:1.
Current R&D daily BRMS save, 30 minutes using 2 drives, 1,162 total backup
data, followed by a 1 hour DEDUP 900mb/s, ratio averaging 400:1.
Also successfully tested using Laservault/Exagrid VTL via IBM's latest
PTFs was the ability to Share Tape Libraries Across Partitions Without VIOS.
See links below for the technical details of how this works.
Pencor06 R&D LPAR was shared with Pencor07 Upgrade LPAR.
A dedicated BRMS full system save was completed on Pencor07.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzam4/rzam4clientvirtdevices.htm
https://www.itjungle.com/2020/05/04/sharing-tape-libraries-across-partitions-without-vios/
Still to be tested.
A complete BRMS recovery via LaserVault/Exagrid from a full BRMS dedicated
system save done via Laservault/Exagrid.
Thank You
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Paul Steinmetz
IBM i Systems Administrator
Pencor Services, Inc.
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