One thing I did not add the tape drive must be a standalone LTO drive connected to the VTE
Carl Swanson carl.swans...@verizon.net Mobile: 215-688-1459 Sent from iPhone misspellings likely > On Feb 1, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Peter > <000005e4a8a0a03d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
