Recently retired so some of my information is dated.
I agree with Tim I am also not aware of any Software only solution for
Z/VM. And I agree that a Virtual tape solution is available from IBM (TS7700),
Dell (DLm) and others like Luminex and Optica. All these systems can scale
pretty small and the movement of data to the cloud is transparent.
I understand your delime, but just because they want something does not
mean it exists.
Carl Swanson
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Arye Shemer
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 9:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?
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]
>
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