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
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Mobile: 215.688.1459
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Peter
Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2025 2:03 AM
To: [email protected]
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, <
[email protected]> 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
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:14 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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, <
> [email protected]> 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.
> >
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