I meant I am planning to get that working but not sure if the physical tape vendors can support these architecture.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 17:45 carl swanson, < 00000252c152a1b5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I hope that solution continues to work for you. You are correct > but EMC / Dell decided to drop support for that option 5 or more years ago. > At the time they did not inform anyone including the DLm team. They did not > remove the hardware or the code that provides that function only removed it > from the documentation. > > As stated before it is a good solution as long as 1 tape drive > will work for you and I hope you can continue to use it. > > Carl Swanson > carl.swans...@verizon.net > Mobile: 215.688.1459 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Peter > Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:03 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup > > Just in my case attach DLM VTE to physical tape and send as generic backup > to any LTO drives > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 05:03 Russell Witt, < > 0000025adb32e6d7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > Actually, most/many of the generic distributed storage devices (NetApp > > for > > example) allow for physical tape to be attached to it. So, if you > > write your virtual-tape to some generic storage device - the ability > > to have a tape copy created is available to you. I know that Luminex, > > Optica and Broadcom Vtape all allow for the writing of Virtual-Tape to > > any generic storage device you may already have in-use in your data > > center. Then, simply attach any LTO tape library to the NetApp device > > and you have exportable physical tape backups that can be sent > > off-site for air-gap storage requirements. > > > > Russell Witt > > CA 1 Flexible Storage Developer > > Broadcom > > russell.w...@broadcom.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > > On Behalf Of Peter > > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:14 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: Mainframe physical tape backup > > > > We are looking for on premises and ejectable tape solution > > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 11:23 Tomer Zelberzvig, < > > 0000059ecf7fe8fe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > > > Hello Peter, > > > > > > I'm not sure about your exact use case, but you can use BMC AMI > > > Cloud with our Cloud Data Sets feature to send your tape data > > > directly to cloud object storage. > > > If you choose the public cloud option, then the storage is already > > > external to your site and should meet whatever you're looking for. > > > Furthermore, object storage enables you to create immutable buckets > > > where you output your data. > > > More information can be found here: > > > https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html > > > https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud-data.html > > > > > > Feel free to reach out if you'd like some more information. > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO > > > IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
