Hi Dean VTS solutions are not as expensive as you think they are depending on the amount of storage and number of channels required. Besides the vastly improved performance of a VTS over std tape, you get the additional reduction in footprint and power requirements which have the secondary effect of reducing your DR costs. If you would like to consider this option, please contact me off line.
Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 [email protected] www.visara.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nai, Dean Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 3592-E07 We have a 3592-E07 and our leasing company is telling us the following. Anyone have any thoughts? We really don’t have the funding for a mirrored VTS and if it’s not mirrored then we lose our DR plan. From leasing company. The first item to be withdrawn from service will be the 3592-C07 at the end of 2020. The C07 is the controller for the tape drives and is required for z/OS or z/VM to communicate with the 3592-E07 drives. IBM has no direct attach tape products for z/OS, z/VM or zVSE. The best option is to go with a VTS and locate a 2nd VTS at your DR site with replication between the two sites. There is also the option to have an IBM VTS with access to tape drives in a 3584 and then send those tapes offsite. To be able to use those tapes for DR you would need another IBM VTS at you DR location. Dean Nai > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
