Quite possibly, though I don't recall your name off the top of my head...then again, I left Houston 23 years ago and I've slept in the interim...
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM Steve Beaver < [email protected]> wrote: > Are you the Same Jay Maynard I knew in Houston > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > No one said I could type with one thumb > > > On Jul 18, 2025, at 19:30, Jay Maynard < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > As I understand things, you'd need to replicate the AMI Cloud management > > server - or simply run it on AWS to begin with. (Or your favorite cloud > > provider.) If you don't have to restore DASD, all you'd need to do is > make > > sure you can connect to your cloud data store and the management server > > from your DR site, and you're off and running. > > If you're not running backups of your DASD to AWS, then the size > > requirements for the pipe drop. > > > > I'll be sure to post our experiences here. I'm really hoping the product > > works as advertised. If it does, we'll save a pile of money. > > > > > >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM Michael Babcock < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Not sure my last post went through so here it is again. > >> > >> We have a dedicated DR site that has a DS8950 DASD box where we mirror > our > >> production DASD to so we won’t need to FTP anything. We are wondering > how > >> a dataset on tape gets restored during a DR batch cycle. We have an > AWS > >> presence as well but I’m not sure what size of pipe we have. Thanks > for > >> your input and I look forward to hearing more about your PoC. > >> > >> > >> 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 > >>> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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
