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RE: Supportted VTL libraries by IBM

After a VIOS upgrade I did have to do a WRKMLBSTS and vary it off/on again.
It's not as bad as having to SST reset an IOP card or some such thing as we've experienced with IBM devices. So often I had the instructions taped to the device.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
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Subject: RE: Supportted VTL libraries by IBM

Keep in mind, I'm a bleeding edge kind of guy with some stuff. Like today is busy upgrading VIOS midday on a live production system, Putting PTF's on multiple systems, including a new DB2 group ptf.

All 15 lpars at 7.3. And whenever rNext comes out I'll be jumping to that.
Jumped right on the Power 9 band wagon (with some early issues).

My EMC DD2500 has never been an issue with this.

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"IF" the device supports both BRMS and normal save/restore commands then I've not had any issues with IBM support. Granted, I had to work through some "hardware" stuff where the drive id differed after a system migration but it was no biggie.

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Subject: RE: Supportted VTL libraries by IBM

I'd like to thank everyone for their input.

Rob- DD2500's from EMC
Larry- ETI SPHiNX
Evan - EMC Data Domains
Holger - OpenSource-VTL (quadstor)

I agree, all of these have performed well with an IBM i.

However, if a critical issue ever occurred while trying to recover / restore a system, related to one of these VTLs, how would IBM respond, since they consider these non-supported.

I was reviewing and received quotes on Laser Vault's new VITL.
The VITL is Not an appliance, and scalable, two features I do like.

Search is still on.

Paul


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We use the DD2500's to not only backup IBM i to Virtual Tapes but an AIX lpar, running IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly TSM or Tivoli Storage Manager) uses it to back up all of our PC's and other servers to disk on the DD2500.

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We have also tested quadstor with our backup software for linux and windows machines. i would also like to use it with ibm-i. how do you connect the ibm-i machine to the quadstor vtl. is there a way other than fibre-channel because we dont want to invest in the necessary controllers

franz



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Date: 04.03.2019 23:11
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I am in deep contact with quadstor support as we finalized the software for use with IBM i. Quick response time, the found all topics to keep an eye on (currently LTO5 emulation works best, IBM drives seem to have some special commands with IBM i).

-h

Am 04.03.2019 um 22:33 schrieb Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>:

The QuadStor thing looks interesting to me but I think it might be a
challenge to gather support for this approach in our environment,

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