Re: Virtualizing External LTO with TR2 and above

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kirk, I believe what you could do is add a vary off of your tape drive on
lpar a when your save completes.  You could do a rtvcfgsrc, check the
status if offline or online.  Once the status is off then it is up for
grabs on either lpar.  To vary it online then on lpar b would be the
interesting scenario, maybe use DDM or FTP to run a command or ?? based on
the final rtvcfgsrc results.


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was reading on line that with V7R1 and TR2 you can virtualize an External
> LTO Tape Drive in a IBM i with IBM i Guest Partitions. If I read it
> correctly you simply vary it off where it is vary it on where you want it.
> sound good for a manual operation or a timed set of cmds.
>
> So if I needed to send a cmd to another partition what is the best way?
> Assuming I don't need to wait for a specific time to save LPAR B and LPAR C
> I want to start the save of LPAR A and as soon as it ends Start LPARB and
> so...
>
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