I was about to have the same reaction as Larry when I read his post. We've
been putting individual tape devices out there since nearly the beginning,
but a library, now that would be news. Fabulous news.
Based on a conversation I had with folks while in Rochester last year, I was
lead to believe virtualizing a tape library would be a very significant
effort and not deemed worth the money to do it. I sadly agreed if it was
that big of a job. We moved on to Fibre tape where you can at least move
the drive back and forth as needed with vary on/off. That of course
required a Fibre Switch and some zoning. VIOS even eliminates the vary
on/off.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2018 4:12 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: NFS using GUI within HMC 9
You can do Tape DRIVES through NWSD but thus far no LIBRARY devices that
way.
Are you suggesting a PTF to host libraries that way?
That would be nice for i Hosting i customers!!
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
On 12/6/2018 5:02 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
And, supposedly there is a PTF coming to host the tape from the NWSD
in the not too distant future.
Rob Berendt
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