RE: BRMS Network Feature Was: Move a tape drive to another partition

BRMS Networking is what you want. It works very well and is really easy to
install/configure.


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mitchell, Dana
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:13 AM
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Subject: BRMS Network Feature Was: Move a tape drive to another partition

Just curios Rob, are you or anyone else here using BRMS Network Feature?

We currently have several standalone LPARs using BRMS backing up to a
DataDomain and I am planning on implementing BRMS on another LPAR that is
replicated to backup nodes using MIMIX. I'd obviously like backup and tape
information to be available on the other nodes when we do a MIMIX switch,
but the BRMS library doesn't take well to MIMIX replication. So I am
wondering about other people's experiences using BRMS Network feature.

Dana

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Berendt
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Subject: Re: Move a tape drive to another partition

Glad you have your tape figured out. We use VIOS to virtualize that card.
We never have to move it to any of our multiple lpars of IBM i to use it.
Not only that but that one card connected to multiple drives in a library.
How? We put a SAN switch in between. Worked great! And, if you have
multiple drives in that library you can have multiple lpars backing up at
the same time.
We still have that fiber card, and the SAN. The multiple drive library has
been replaced by a Data Domain 2500 VTL. Now all the lpars can be backed up
to the numerous "drives" set up in the VTL. We actually have the lpars
doing parallel saves to four "drives" each.

And all these scenarios play well with BRMS.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/08/2017 07:22 PM
Subject: Re: Move a tape drive to another partition
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Thanks Paul. I'll give it a try once I figure out what else is on that
adapter. I should be OK because the people who setup the system were doing
this during testing.

Art

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Art,

I've done this often.
You don't move the tape library, but the IO adapter that the library
is attached to.
Note, ensure that the adapter driving your tape library doesn't have
any disk drives attached also, or you will crash your system.

1) Vary off library on source LPAR
2) On HMC, source LPAR, dynamic partitioning, physical adapters, move
or remove, select, in my case, 8 gb dual port fiber channel adapter,
pick

the

LPAR being moved to.
3) Takes about 2 minutes, wait for adapter to report in on target.
4) Vary on libarary on target LPAR

Paul

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Art Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 5:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Move a tape drive to another partition

I have a 8202-E4D that hosts 2 mimix backup partitions and a dev
partition.

I need to do a full save on the partition that doesn't have the tape
library attached to it. It's a TS3100.

Can I use the HMC to move the tape device to the other partition? I
was looking around the options and I don't see it.

I realize I can screw up a lot of stuff in there but if I can identify

the

tape drive I should be OK.


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