Re: BRMS Network ?

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are any of these virtual lpars.  Can you do 21 saves to more than one at
one time.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:19 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We are using BRMS Network.  We have 10 lpars spread across 3 boxes using 4
> different tape libraries with 1 to 6 drives in each library.
>
> Let's pick our biggest tape library - TAPKVL01.  It has 3 drives (out of
> the 6 in the physical boxes) assigned to it.  We have 4 lpars using it but
> only back up using 3 at a time.  We may have 50 tapes in it for BRMS.  We
> use STRBALBRM to say lpar1 uses A# of tapes, lpar2 uses B# of tapes, lpar3
> uses C# of tapes, lpar4 uses D# of tapes.  Then it goes and divey's them
> up.  The network feature allows it to know who has what tapes assigned to
> them.  If you try to reassign a tape from one lpar to another it talks to
> the other lpar and let's it know.  Clue:  have extra tapes balanced around
> BEFORE bringing the system to restricted state for a full system save.
> Otherwise it can't talk to the other lpar and it won't allow you to use
> the tape - no way - no how.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   06/15/2012 02:56 PM
> Subject:        BRMS Network ?
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>
> Anyone using BRMS Network with a fibre card connection to a SAN and or a
> physical tape media device.  I want to find out how this works for you
> writing to it at the same time, restores, etc.
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