Hello Timothy, TS7700 baby, z/OS LPAR (or guest) and even Linux were introduced and offered to the customer but completely rejected Only a solution built on software running in z/VM would be accepted by the customer. Thank you all for the suggestions and help, Best Regards, Arye Shemer
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:12 AM Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m not aware of any pure software-based option from IBM or any other > vendor that fits your/their description. However, IBM fairly recently > introduced a “baby” TS7700 model that’s customer rack mounted. If they’re > concerned about consuming another whole frame footprint it’s not that big. > And the hardware-based approach has its advantages, notably lower > processing impact(s) on the z/VM environment(s). > > If they’re willing to relax their z/OS “ban” then I think it can be done > with a pure software-based approach, but I’d have to double check. > > There are hypothetical “Roll Your Own” approaches involving Linux. I > suppose for example you could configure the storage system to take > point-in-time copies then use a Linux LPAR to back those PITCs up to cloud > object storage, highly preferably encrypted before transmission. Not ideal > IMHO, and I don’t see how you’d get incremental backups that way. > > ————— > Timothy Sipples > Senior Architect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity > IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific > [email protected] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
