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On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM Jay Maynard < [email protected]> wrote: > The DR part is the part I'm most interested in, as well. The idea, they > tell me, is that you FTP your one-pack (or whatever) image to the DR > system, then IPL it, and it has the agent on it to do the restores. I'll > know more about how that works when I give it a try; the details seem a bit > scant. > > We're looking to save a big pile of money on the DLm and DD, since ours are > about to go out of service. I think it'll work for all that, but I'm not > going to hang my hat on it until we give it a try. > > We do have an institutionally large presence with AWS, and we'll be > using S3 for the backup storage; we have a nice fat pipe there, so > bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. You will need to pay attention to that, > though. > > I'm not expecting to be able to actually try it for another couple of weeks > at minimum, hopefully before SHARE in Cleveland. I'll post when I have some > results. > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM Michael Babcock < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > We’d be interested in anything you have to say about it. We were pitched > > the product a day or two ago. We already have DFSMSdss so shouldn’t > > have to worry about that part. And we also wonder how that works with > DR. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM Jay Maynard < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We are doing a proof of concept for that right now, as a potential > > > replacement for FDRABR, DLm, and DD. We haven't actually tried it yet - > > > still getting prerequisites done, one of which is a trial license for > > > DFSMSdss (which IBM is being slow about) - but we expect it to > completely > > > replace the DLm and DD, as well as FDRABR. It'll also replace DFDSSrmm > > (or > > > CA-1). AMI Cloud Data will also replace the DLm/DD for other tape uses, > > > like, for us, Adabas backups. > > > > > > I hope to actually run some tests sometime in the next few weeks. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM Michael Babcock < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Is anyone looking at BMC's AMI Cloud (or actively using it) to > replace > > > > Dell/EMC's DLM/DataDomains? BMC bought Model9, now called BMC's AMI > > > > Cloud, and have been enhancing it. Any experience or thoughts would > be > > > > greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jay Maynard > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
