I don't know for sure. I can tell you in our old building (back in the Sterling era) we had remote tape drives in Reston going to our datacenter in Sterling (probably about 15 miles) and I personally did this with that configuration.
That being said, admittedly for 99% of customers doing remote DR exercises it's the "3270" that is at the end of the 2000 mile wire, not the tape drive ... the tape drive is local (channel attached) to the CPU. JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Sustaining Engineer Tel: +1-703-708-3479 [email protected] From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 01:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Remote Drives Do any of the customers who have done/do this done it over a 2000 mile wire? Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Imler, Steven J Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Remote Drives I know customers have done/do this. Alternatively, you can place the HiDRO MODULE on your PARM disk and IPL it stand-alone in the LPAR via the HMC (but you would obviously have to have a PARM disk restored to do that ... implying you would need to restore at least one volume via stand-alone tape IPL). JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Sustaining Engineer Tel: +1-703-708-3479 [email protected] From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 06:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Remote Drives Has anyone ever ipled a stand-alone program, Hidro in particular, from a remote tape drive? Is it even possible? Regards, Richard Schuh
