Re: Virtual Tape - spanning volumes

Those vendors stopped making those devices, so naturally IBM could no longer sell them. Most of those were supported long after they stopped selling them, then IBM dropped support as the need declined.

The real question is how do you move a system into the cloud, when you don’t have a compatible VTL or tape that is supported on the cloud system. Even the 3590 (and similars) line of tapes are dwindling fast. No one wants to deal with physical volumes, except as an air gap to foil extortionists.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Aug 28, 2021, at 7:21 PM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Rob,

Am 27.08.2021 um 21:47 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

There's just too many media types out there to support physical tape.

If we were still in the 1990's, I'd agree. For quite some years, all tape media has largely been superseded by LTO, and — within IBMs niche — by IBMs proprietary cartridge technology.

DDS, DLT, QIC, Mammoth, … probably more exotic ones I've already forgotten. All gone.

:wq! PoC

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