VTape is priced per virtual drive. We are using it and it works great. CPU/DASD are the other costs but you will have those with TMM as well.
Thanks....Rick -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Myers Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Virtual Tape options Mark: CPU and DASD may well not be a problem. The workload moving off the mainframe to the servers has freed up a lot of DASD and the CPU demand is dropping. I never believed in free rides (or free lunches) either. Mike Myers >>> "Mark Zelden" <[email protected]> 12/18/2008 1:18 PM >>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:08:20 -0500, Mike Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >Jeff: > >Thanks for the reply. I am supposing that CA-VTAPE is a separately priced product. Is that correct? If so, any idea how much it costs? > I don't know the cost... but with products like VTAPE, the cost is in CPU (some offloaded to zIIP now for VTAPE) and your own DASD. Don't forget about DR also. There is no free ride. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ The contents of this e-mail (and any attachments) are confidential, may be privileged and may contain copyright material. You may only reproduce or distribute material if you are expressly authorized by us to do so. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email (and any attachments) is unauthorized. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and immediately delete this e-mail and any copies of it from your system. ======================================================================== ====== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
