Can you replicate your rescue tape to a VTL on-site? On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM Jay Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: > > We just completed a DR test using our shiny new AMI Cloud setup. Worked > great, except for one thing: a chicken-and-egg problem to get started. > > The AMI Cloud bare metal recovery process involves IPLing the initial > volume by having the HMC FTP it and IPL that. It uses the same process as > the starter system, where an ICKDSF standalone restore IPLable file and > control cards are appended to the front of the volume image. This > apparently works just fine, though I have not tried it myself. > > The problem is that our DR provider doesn't give us access to a bare LPAR > and the HMC to ipl with. Instead, we get a z/VM guest and IPL in that. We > cheated, and used out VTL to IPL from for this test so we could test > everything else, but this is a problem we're going to have to solve. > > Since z/VM apparently cannot IPL from FTP the way the HMC does, there has > to be another way. It struck me that this is a problem IBM has solved > already, since I'm sure they make it possible to install the z/OS driver > system in a z/VM guest. Do they do so, in fact? If so, how does it work? > I'm guessing we could replicate that process with our one-pack system. > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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