Did you read a different note than what I wrote? Business Critical Tape
Drives?
We are talking about a tape drive? Why should the vendor care what media
and how someone backs up their data? I would be the first person to raise a
red-flag if someone wanted to put P-Series Disk in an iSeries, because that
is an unsupported configuration, but we are talking about a tape drive. A
tape drive! Remember, he didn't say unsupported hardware by the hardware
vendor, he said unsupported hardware (I don't even remember if those were
his words) by the application vendor.
Now, you are biased as you are an application vendor. Should the
application vendor worry about the supported hardware attached to the system
or their application.
Are these the same application vendors who recommend 8MM tape
drives, which are write many and read never? Please do not get me started.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 4:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Supported configurations (was: Second ASP at a remote location)
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just because your core application vendor doesn't support tape
encryption, doesn't mean you can't use it. We have installed LTO-4
Yes, because running unsupported configurations has always been an
excellent idea on business critical systems. Just doing something
because you think you can get away with it doesn't mean you should do
it. While doing some slight out of spec modifications on your home
systems doesn't mean that you should put your entire business in
danger by running unsupported configurations.
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