RE: Tape Carousel and Logical Partitions

Rob,

I actually have two cards.

One card is dedicated to our production LPAR and the other is switchable
between production and development.  Each is attached to 1/2 of our
3570-C12.

I only switch it to production for full system backups.

Thanks,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

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> You know, if you throw enough money at a problem there are 
> other ways of 
> solving it.  Instead of worry about switching the controlling 
> card from 
> one lpar to another, buy a second card.  Works for us.
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> Group Dekko Services, LLC
> Dept 01.073
> PO Box 2000
> Dock 108
> 6928N 400E
> Kendallville, IN 46755
> http://www.dekko.com
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> Dave,
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> You can set up the tape as switchable.  However, it isn't really just
> the tape, you have to switch the IOP which switches 
> everything attached.
> 
> In addition, while you are supposed to be able to 
> automatically schedule
> a switch, I've never done it that way.  I always manually perform the
> vary off, switch, and if needed vary on.
> 
> Your BP should be able to help you configure switchable 
> hardware, or you
> can download the LPAR validation tool and figure out what needs to be
> done yourself.
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> HTH,
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> Charles Wilt
> --
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
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> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave 
> > Reiher/prairiefarms
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:24 PM
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> > Subject: Tape Carousel and Logical Partitions
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am fairly new to the AS400 world and need a little assistance.
> > We have a tape carousel that was purchased before I came on 
> > board. Right 
> > now it doesn't seem to be serving a good purpose as far as I 
> > can tell. 
> > They only use one drive in it and we have our main partition 
> > and a couple 
> > of logical partitions on our 400. Currently they have a job 
> > that creates a 
> > save file on our Domino partition and then ftp's that over to 
> > our main 
> > partition where it is then placed on the tape with the main 
> > partition's 
> > backup. I would imagine that there has to be a utility or at 
> > least a way 
> > that these partitions can use the same tape carousel without 
> > having to do 
> > it this way. Does anyone know if there is? We run our disk 
> > usage to some 
> > dangerous levels the way we currently do it, I can't think 
> > that there is 
> > not some way we can utilize that tape drive from each 
> partition. Any 
> > suggestions??
> > 
> > Thanks!
> >     Dave Reiher
> >     System Analyst
> >     Prairie Farms Dairy - Corporate
> >     dreiher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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