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  3. September 2014

Virtualizing Tape VIOS vs IBM 1

When hosting IBM i on IBM i I can place the SAS physical adapter in the
Host and using vSCSI adatpers I can setup it up and all you have to do is
Vary the Drive Off in 1 partition and Vary on in the other. I have done
this with a single drive on a single card.
Works Great and no HMC to mess with to move the tape drive.

With Power8 unless you buy something bigger than an 8core you have very
limited cards slots. I would really like to use a single SAS card with
multiple ports in different partitions at the same time. Can this be done
in VIOS and/or IBM I?

Example1: SAS Tape Card assigned to VIOS and Use Port1 for IBM i Partition
A while using Port 2 for IBM i Partition B?

Example2: Same as #1 but IBM i is the Host?


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