Hi Zoltan, CentOS will not be supported by IBM.
I myself run TSM on CentOS just fine (TSM 7.1.6 on CentOS 7.5). The lin_tape I don't know, but if you can get your hands on the sourcecode you could compile it probably for CentOS. Richard. Op do 23 aug. 2018 18:14 schreef Zoltan Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu>: > This is mostly targeted at IBM folks, but we are also looking for feedback > from others who gone through this. > > Since RHEL licensing costs have increased almost three fold over the last 5 > years, we are going to push moving to CentOS. There are no licensing fees > for CentOS and our current RHEL licensing does not include support. CentOS > is functionally compatible or binary compatible with RHEL. > > So how, if at all, will this effect IBM support in the ISP server arena? > As far as I can tell, IBM only officially supports AIX, SUSE, RHEL, Debian, > HP-UX, SOLARIS versions of *NIX for a server. Then of course there is the > lin_tape driver compatibility/support. > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator > Xymon Monitor Administrator > VMware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > www.ucc.vcu.edu > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/ >
