That's exactly what we did for this DR test, but we're looking to eliminate our VTL entirely - including the pricey replication to the DR provider. That's a major justification for going to AMI Cloud in the first place.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM Mike Schwab < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > 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 > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
