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First I did not think that that VMWare allowed direct access to hardware. So how do you make the FC adapter available to the VTL Software? Since it appears that's been done I must be wrong in this regard. Curious to know hot to that.

More importantly though this is the backup to IBM i, the computer most likely to contain exceptionally valuable data to your business. Backing it up is of paramount importance. In a disaster you need to be able to get that data back 'with the quickness'. Having to potentially rebuild storage of VMWare. Then VMWare. Then this VM. And finally, only then could you even BEGIN to start restoring IBM i..... I can't see how one of these in any virtualization layer would be a backup I could rely on.

And consider then that this VTL being on VMWare would need to be backed up itself or you wouldn't be able to restore IT! So you would need a backup of a backup! At the very least you would want it replicated off site.

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On 3/19/2019 7:38 AM, Holger Scherer wrote:
We had some issues with FC login which also might have been an issue on the VTL
software (early stage when testing IBM i compatibility), after that a lot of changes
to the VTL software have been made. So these problems might have been solved.
But personally i would prefer a direct hardware as there always might be an issue
with the access to the QLA adapter in the VTL hardware...

The direct setup (with older IBM x3650 and HP DL360 boxes) works great.

-h

Am 19.03.2019 um 12:36 schrieb Franz.Rauscher@xxxxxxxxxxx:

Hi Holger!

Thanks for the quick repsonse.

were there any problems with the virtualized setup other than performance.
so could this lead to instabilities on the as400 side.
we can only do it virtualized.

the last thing i want to rist is instability on the as400.


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