Re: Power7, VIOS, SAS attached tape library

Kinda reminds me of when we had SAS, with multiple LPARs.
Wasn't that one of the reasons for products like APRM by Al Barsa?
But that was awhile ago.

ps: Saint Al died at his keyboard at a COMMON conference. Somehow I have
to shake this out of my head and get back to work.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 6:45 PM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As I recall the SAS attachment is what's gonna be yer undoin.

VIOS is awesome at virtualizing fiber tape but notsomuch with SAS tape.
If I recall correctly you CAN share a tape drive by soft switching the
thing between partitions inside of VIOS but I don't think it supports
library devices.

- L

On 10/15/2024 5:05 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

Hello,

I've been tasked to find out if a HP physical tape library being

attached through a SAS HBA to a Power 7 machine running VIOS and IBM i 7.3
can be used in a meaningful way with just "stock" commands (sav*, rst*),
*without* BRMS.

I'm not aware of "native" IBM i commands to control a tape changer,

analog to mtx on Linux. Do I miss something or is BRMS mandatory to steer
media changers from within IBM i?

Thanks!

:wq! PoC

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