RE: sharing a tape library between two partitions

We have not seen this. We use the HMC Scheduled operations function to
move memory betweem LPARS six times a day and the schedule entries for
all LPARs survive HMC reboots and LPAR IPLs.

I have not used APRM but can't figure out what functionality that could
have that the HMC does not.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Midwest Region Data Center
Fiserv.


-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 7:00 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: sharing a tape library between two partitions

1 - I've not used the HMC schedule, but I thought I heard that if you
reboot your hmc you have to reenter the schedule entries - which makes
no sense to me.

2 - Barsa Consulting peddles a product called APRM for Automatic
Partition Resource Manager.

Rob Berendt
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From:
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Date:
09/30/2009 10:10 PM
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RE: sharing a tape library between two partitions
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The HMC can move IO Adapters via a schedule entry, which makes it very
easy.


Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:42 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: sharing a tape library between two partitions

I need to share a tape library between two partitions for backup using
BRMS which will use DDM so I have one database.

I know I can move a tape drive/library from one partition to another
with a pgm and that is an option.

What other ways can I share the tape library between two partitions?

Electric SCSI switch? Daisy chain SCSI devices? etc?

Jerry