Remco Am I missreading this technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461901
That is saying virtual NPIV adapters are OK. ----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Remco Post > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:20 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS > > I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to tape > drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an > officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not > officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on your > own. > >