Hi Tony Most of the time we define the drives on the Visara 5990A/L as 3490 and only define them as 3590 if the customer has a "desire" to define 3490.
Bottom line is that it will not make a difference. Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On May 18, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: > > For a little fun on Friday afternoon. > > We will be replacing our current VTL. > > The new VTL can be configured to look like 3490s or 3590s. Our current VTL is > defined to z/OS as 3490s. > > Some of the staff are saying: "All VTLs should be defined as 3490s because > that is what everybody does." > > Others are saying: "Let's make them 3590s because then they match the few > remaining physical 3590s and if we have an issue with the VTL we can just > swap the fiber and continue running on real 3590s until the problem is fixed." > > It was suggested I ask here to see what others are doing. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Tony Thigpen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
